History of science books

Filled with stunning illustrations and lively, engaging text, The Repair Shop's Dom Chinea guides readers through...  Read More >>

Reexamines the Work and Legacy of One of the Most Important Figures of the Victorian Era  Read More >>

There are few visible markers of the accomplishments of public health. If epidemiologists do their jobs, nothing...  Read More >>

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or ""economy of nature"") from the late 17th...  Read More >>

How women were removed from the Scientific Revolution, and what we lost as a result. The running joke in Europe...  Read More >>

For readers interested in the history of science, Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, and studies of empire...  Read More >>

This book offers the first richly layered and contextualized history of the famed 'Solow model' between the 1930s...  Read More >>

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

The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical...  Read More >>

In this volume, specialists in various fields of cultural studies investigate the ways in which scientific knowledge...  Read More >>

From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists...  Read More >>

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The publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species evoked a spectrum of responses, from fervent endorsement to...  Read More >>

This book examines the Naples’ patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic and the mystery of its periodical...  Read More >>

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Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity aims to establish the significance of technological animation within...  Read More >>

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomideIn the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S....  Read More >>

Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977....  Read More >>

How did Scottish scientific culture change from the Enlightenment to the Victorian period?  Read More >>

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

An insider's account of the NASA mission that changed our understanding of planets, planetary systems, and the stars...  Read More >>

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This volume explores how late sixteenth to late eighteenth-century European naturalists and artists perceived, recorded,...  Read More >>

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