History of science books

This book shows how natural science can be applied to human beings, yet simultaneously how humans remain free of...  Read More >>

For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known...  Read More >>

L'espace et le temps selon Einstein de Charles Nordmann est un ouvrage captivant qui plonge le lecteur au coeur...  Read More >>

Qanats and Historic Structures in Persia presents the early history of water science and includes the advanced knowledge...  Read More >>

For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known...  Read More >>

What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking...  Read More >>

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science...  Read More >>

Tom Rutter examines how Shakespeare made use in his writings of the knowledge and theories of the cosmos, the natural...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance...  Read More >>

This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants...  Read More >>

The Universe a Vast Electric Organism, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention...  Read More >>

An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquity. Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar...  Read More >>

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The Matter of Empire examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid...  Read More >>

In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows...  Read More >>

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This book uses the impact of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to explore...  Read More >>

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists, from Copernicus to Stephen Hawking....  Read More >>

An intimate and unfamiliar account of Albert Einstein's visit to Oxford in the 1930's, casting new light on why...  Read More >>

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural History’s David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins,...  Read More >>

Tom Rutter examines how Shakespeare made use in his writings of the knowledge and theories of the cosmos, the natural...  Read More >>

This book presents the first full English translation of a foundational text in the history of psychodynamic thinking,...  Read More >>