History of science books

Deep in the Blue Mountains, an extraordinary ancient tree waits to be found.  Read More >>

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and...  Read More >>

This book is for anyone fascinated by the late nineteenth century revolution in electrical technologies.This is...  Read More >>

Transforming Noise examines the historical origin of the attempts to understand, control, and use noise in modern...  Read More >>

The Newtonian concept of space is usually reduced to the absolute space of the Mathematical Principles of Natural...  Read More >>

Treating practices such as counseling, personality testing, experiments on behavioral change and attitude formation,...  Read More >>

The current and possible future applications of He II are described. Like all science and engineering, the story...  Read More >>

The Newtonian concept of space is usually reduced to the absolute space of the Mathematical Principles of Natural...  Read More >>

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great’s (c.  Read More >>

This book offers a primer on the fundamentals and applications of the Geroch-Held-Penrose (GHP) calculus, a powerful...  Read More >>

A stunning history of indigenous plant knowledge, from origin myths to medical applications  Read More >>

The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence...  Read More >>

This book covers the history of kinematics from the Greeks to the 20th century.  Read More >>

This monograph is dedicated to the lives and scientific achievements of the physiology pioneers Warren and Margaret...  Read More >>

This book addresses the pursuit and further investigation of experimental results by analyzing classic examples...  Read More >>

This volume provides new insights into Gall’s thinking and what Spurzheim did, and the faddish movement called ‘phrenology’,...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial eastern India....  Read More >>

Interdisciplinarity is a hallmark of contemporary knowledge production. This book introduces a Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity...  Read More >>

Science, Enlightenment and Revolution brings together thirteen papers by renowned historian Dorinda Outram. It is...  Read More >>

This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice...  Read More >>

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their...  Read More >>

Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went “from Empire to Europe” and argues...  Read More >>

Prompted by the Fukushima disaster, this volume explores how nuclear technology has shaped the world and how we...  Read More >>

"This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley (""Darwin's...  Read More >>

Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg. After the war most scientists...  Read More >>