History of science books

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The Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating...  Read More >>

Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to...  Read More >>

This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by...  Read More >>

This book confronts the question of immortality: Is human life without immortality tolerable?  Read More >>

In this famous short book Einstein explains clearly, using the minimum amount of mathematical terms, the basic ideas...  Read More >>

The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.];A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts...  Read More >>

The Romance of Rubber, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so...  Read More >>

The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought, is a classical and a rare book, that has been...  Read More >>

Rough Ways Made Smooth: A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, is a classical and a rare book, that...  Read More >>

This volume convenes leading philosophers and early-career scholars compiling a fine collection of chapters addressing...  Read More >>

From the beginning of history, measurement has been interwoven into the human experience, shaping our understanding...  Read More >>

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The thrilling story of how scientists unlocked a new window onto how life works  Read More >>

More Science from an Easy Chair, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history,...  Read More >>

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Die Beiträge rekonstruieren die Forschungsgeschichte etwa zum Trauerspiel, zu Klopstock oder zum antiken Roman und...  Read More >>

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

This book provides a new all-round perspective on the life and work of Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) as a philosopher,...  Read More >>

This book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Widely seen as evolution’s founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose...  Read More >>

The book delineates the role and place of the Western scientific discourse which occupied an important place in...  Read More >>

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This book shares the life story of William Playfair, the father of statistical graphics, who experienced extreme...  Read More >>

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