History of science books

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This is a book about life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, and seeks to understand how and why the global effort...  Read More >>

A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science....  Read More >>

This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators. Between 1955 and 1963 they...  Read More >>

"Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies--the half-dozen diseases responsible...  Read More >>

Winining the war of the air and airwaves turned the tide of World War II. This is the story of the brilliant, maverick...  Read More >>

Originally published as Ein Zentaur in London: Lektèure und Beobachtung in der frèuhneuzeitlichen Naturforschung.....  Read More >>

The first history of women astronomers in English to cover individuals from antiquity to the modern day. Features...  Read More >>

This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth...  Read More >>

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional...  Read More >>

An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation.   The experiment has long...  Read More >>

This book systematically develops the mathematical foundations of the theory of relativity and links them to physical...  Read More >>

Pierre Gassendi was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy whose philosophical and scientific works contributed...  Read More >>

This book offers the first systematic review of the structuralism of physical theories. Scheibe's theory of reduction,...  Read More >>

This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders...  Read More >>

This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders...  Read More >>

The Scientific Basis of National Progress, Including that of Morality, a classical book, has been considered important...  Read More >>

Science and the modern world, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and...  Read More >>

Screw-Thread Cutting by the Master-Screw Method since 1480, a classical book, has been considered important throughout...  Read More >>

For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point...  Read More >>

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated...  Read More >>

Definitions, and views, of photons have undergone a remarkable change during the last century, continuing today...  Read More >>

"""Thomas Jefferson’s ‘Notes on the State of Virginia’: A Prolegomena"" is an attempt to provide an alternative,...  Read More >>

Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains...  Read More >>

An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discoveries in modern...  Read More >>