History of science books

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Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World Around Them

Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World...

Author: Kelly S. McDonough
ISBN: 9780816550395
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Explores how Nahuas - native speakers of Nahuatl, the common language of the Aztec Empire and of more than 2.5 million...  Read More >>

StarWords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language

StarWords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language

Author: Daniel Kunth ,  Elena Terlevich
ISBN: 9783031490231
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Unbeknownst to many, our modern language contains countless words that were inspired by human observations of the...  Read More >>

The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: Scenes from the Deep History of a Field 400 Years in the Making

The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: Scenes from...

Author: Kevin Donnelly
ISBN: 9780822947967
Format: Hardback
$118.80

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior. The...  Read More >>

Abbes Erben: Zu Den Wechselbeziehungen Zwischen Mathematik Und Physik an Der Universitat Jena in Der Zeit Von 1900 Bis 1945

Abbes Erben: Zu Den Wechselbeziehungen Zwischen Mathematik...

Author: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783777635286
Format: Paperback
$195.36

Dieser Band bildet den Abschluss eines umfangreichen Projekts der Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, das die...  Read More >>

Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress

Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress...

Author: Gowan Dawson ,  Nigel Patterson
ISBN: 9798874766467
Format: Audio
$190.05

"The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the ""march of progress,"" and its role in shaping...  Read More >>

The Tesla Papers

The Tesla Papers

Author: Nikola Tesla
ISBN: 9781034786740
Format: Paperback
$50.66

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Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens

Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids...

Author: Chris Lintott
ISBN: 9781911709183
Format: Hardback
$50.00

An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error...  Read More >>

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis...

Author: Olivia Weisser
ISBN: 9780367557232
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World

Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World...

Author: Alexander C R Hammond
ISBN: 9781952223679
Format: Paperback
$38.99

Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World takes readers on a journey through the lives of 65 pioneers...  Read More >>

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

Author: David N. Livingstone
ISBN: 9780691236704
Format: Hardback
$67.99

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity Scientists, journalists, and politicians...  Read More >>

Basalmo, the Magician, or, The Memoirs of a Physician

Basalmo, the Magician, or, The Memoirs of a Physician...

Author: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9791041985869
Format: Paperback
$68.64

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Curious Creatures In Zoology

Curious Creatures In Zoology

Author: John Ashton
ISBN: 9791041985784
Format: Paperback
$50.16

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Darwin, And After Darwin: Volume I

Darwin, And After Darwin: Volume I

Author: George John Romanes
ISBN: 9791041985777
Format: Paperback
$60.72

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Osservazioni intorno alle vipere

Osservazioni intorno alle vipere

Author: Francesco Redi ,  Walter Bernardi
ISBN: 9782487404014
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Redi, con l'aiuto di una penna affilata, rompe gli schemi del suo tempo, sfidando le tradizione aristotelica e ponendo...  Read More >>

A Biography of Our Sun: From Ancient Myths and Artifacts to Modern Art and Astrophysics

A Biography of Our Sun: From Ancient Myths and Artifacts...

Author: Laura Pesce
ISBN: 9783031547287
Format: Paperback
$73.89

This book is for everyone curious about the Sun and how it has been perceived throughout human history, including...  Read More >>

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13: The Correspondence, June 1872-September 1873

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13: The Correspondence,...

Author: Roy McLeod ,  Gregory Radick
ISBN: 9780822947424
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The 476 letters in the thirteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall document the period from June 1,...  Read More >>

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking...

Author: Bernard Lightman ,  Efram Sera-Shriar
ISBN: 9780822948148
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science. The specialization thesis-the...  Read More >>

What's Gotten into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

What's Gotten into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms,...

Author: Dan Levitt
ISBN: 9780063251205
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life traveled...  Read More >>

Die Arbeit mit dem Radium: Radioaktivitätsforschung 1896 -1914

Die Arbeit mit dem Radium: Radioaktivitätsforschung...

Author: Beate Ceranski
ISBN: 9783662676929
Format: Hardback
$211.17

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Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963

Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of...

Author: Stefanie Coché (University of Giessen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032716176
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s...  Read More >>

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction...

Author: Paul Hamann-Rose
ISBN: 9783031530999
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the...  Read More >>

Conifers of the New England–Acadian Forest: A Cultural History

Conifers of the New England–Acadian Forest: A Cultural...

Author: Steve Keating
ISBN: 9781625347879
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Why did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does...  Read More >>

Are Statistics Only Made of Data?: Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries

Are Statistics Only Made of Data?: Know-how and Presupposition...

Author: Éric Brian
ISBN: 9783031512537
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It...  Read More >>

Canulars, fraudes et supercheries scientifiques

Canulars, fraudes et supercheries scientifiques

Author: Alma
ISBN: 9798224367139
Format: Paperback
$23.73

"Plongez dans un voyage captivant � travers les m�andres de l'histoire scientifique, o� les tromperies, les fraudes...  Read More >>

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