History of science books

25044 books were found.

Nature's Registry: Documenting Natural History in Prussia, 1770-1850

Nature's Registry: Documenting Natural History in Prussia,...

Author: Anne MacKinney
ISBN: 9780822948278
Format: Hardback
$158.40

How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century...  Read More >>

Inca Cosmovision: The Astronomical Legacy of an Andean Empire

Inca Cosmovision: The Astronomical Legacy of an Andean...

Author: Steven Gullberg ,  Milton Rojas Gamarra
ISBN: 9783031675799
Format: Paperback
$131.97

An author of the book is Quechua, a descendant of the Inkas, and what you will read benefits greatly not only from...  Read More >>

Leuven’s College Laboratories: An Urban Walking Guide through 600 Years of Science

Leuven’s College Laboratories: An Urban Walking Guide...

Author: Geert Vanpaemel
ISBN: 9789462704336
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Historical walking guide along the trails of Leuven scientists and their laboratories. Throughout its history,...  Read More >>

Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid

Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the...

Author: Meredith McKittrick
ISBN: 9780226834696
Format: Paperback
$53.95

How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers' visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust...  Read More >>

Historia del Cerebro

Historia del Cerebro

Author: Jose Ramon Alonso
ISBN: 9788419414298
Format: Hardback
$123.95

The professor of biology Jos Ramn Alonso offers an excellent compilation about the history of the brain in order...  Read More >>

The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry: Early Space Age to the Present

The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry: Early Space...

Author: Brian C. Odom
ISBN: 9783031634093
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This collection explores the evolution of the commercial space industry from the beginning of the space age through...  Read More >>

Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid

Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the...

Author: Meredith McKittrick
ISBN: 9780226831800
Format: Hardback
$190.95

How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers' visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust...  Read More >>

Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance: With Editions and Translations of De la Sfera del Mondo and De le Stelle Fisse

Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: I....

Author: Kristen Lippincott
ISBN: 9783031567858
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book presents the first interdisciplinary study of Alessandro Piccolomini’s two early astronomical works –...  Read More >>

Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba

Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba

Author: Lee Sessions
ISBN: 9780300267945
Format: Hardback
$103.95

A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material...  Read More >>

Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships

Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal...

Author: Finn Arne Jørgensen ,  Dolly Jørgensen
ISBN: 9780822948308
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Considers the Entangled Human-Animal Relationship of a Complex Multispecies World  Read More >>

Machines A Visual History: 100 Machines and the Remarkable Stories Behind Each Invention

Machines A Visual History: 100 Machines and the Remarkable...

Author: Dominic Chinea
ISBN: 9780744089608
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The Repair Shop's Dominic Chinea takes you on an exploration of 100 essential machines found in the workshops and...  Read More >>

The Science Lover's Guide to London

The Science Lover's Guide to London

Author: Rachael Rowe
ISBN: 9781399063623
Format: Paperback
$44.99

London has seen many scientific discoveries and engineering feats in its history. Scientists have made their home...  Read More >>

del Genesis Al Armagedon, La Historia del Universo, La Tierra Y La Humanidad

del Genesis Al Armagedon, La Historia del Universo,...

Author: Mario A Alzaga-Nava
ISBN: 9798218437411
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Multicivilizational Exchanges in the Making of Modern Science: Needham’s Dialogical Vision

Multicivilizational Exchanges in the Making of Modern...

Author: Arun Bala ,  Raymond W. K. Lau
ISBN: 9789819735402
Format: Hardback
$475.17

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Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century

Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German...

Author: Sophie Salvo
ISBN: 9780226827728
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences...  Read More >>

A Geometry of Sufficient Reason: Space and Quantity in the Works of Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze

A Geometry of Sufficient Reason: Space and Quantity...

Author: Florian Vermeiren (KU Leuven, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781032762333
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza,...  Read More >>

How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America

How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution...

Author: Caroline Winterer
ISBN: 9780691199672
Format: Hardback
$62.99

How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves During the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity

Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation...

Author: David Andrews ,  Kevin N. Lala
ISBN: 9780691262413
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolution A new scientific view of evolution...  Read More >>

Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century

Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German...

Author: Sophie Salvo
ISBN: 9780226827704
Format: Hardback
$190.95

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences...  Read More >>

Eugen Ehrlich: Kontexte und Rezeptionen

Eugen Ehrlich: Kontexte und Rezeptionen

Author: Marietta Auer ,  Ralf Seinecke
ISBN: 9783161621734
Format: Paperback
$121.87

2022 jährte sich Eugen Ehrlichs Todestag zum 100. Mal. Der Schöpfer des ""lebenden Rechts"" gilt heute als Begründer...  Read More >>

How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You’ve Wanted to Ask

How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every...

Author: David Miles
ISBN: 9780349428895
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Alexander von Humboldt: Politischer Versuch über die Insel Kuba

Alexander von Humboldt: Politischer Versuch über die...

Author: Vera Kutzinski ,  Ingo Schwarz
ISBN: 9783662686041
Format: Hardback
$105.57

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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

Author: Alison Bashford
ISBN: 9780226836614
Format: Paperback
$63.36

A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one...  Read More >>

Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science

Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention...

Author: Associate Professor Stephen Case
ISBN: 9780822948384
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Explores the Early Life and Career of a Figure Central to the Development of Modern Scientific Practice  Read More >>

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