History: theory & methods books

This volume brings together a number of authors that see themselves as contribu­ tors to, or critical commentators...  Read More >>

In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers,...  Read More >>

Celebrates the achievements of five women, four of whom were born in Ireland while the fifth married into an Irish...  Read More >>

In this deeply-delving, lucidly written, humane and erudite study, the history of philosophical currents is blended...  Read More >>

Historical accounts of successful laboratories often consist primarily of reminiscences by their directors and the...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the Joint Discussion-17 at the 23rd IAU General Assembly, organised by the Commission 41, held in...  Read More >>

Contains papers presented at the workshop 'Reworking the Bench: Laboratory Notebooks in the History of Science',...  Read More >>

Catholic Millenarianism offers an authoritative overview of Catholic apocalyptic thought combined with detailed...  Read More >>

Royal Instructions for Scientific Exploration . 33 The Voyage of La Perouse: Part 1, From Brest to Monterey Bay...  Read More >>

Religions are the largest communities of the global society and claim, at least in the cases of Islam and Christianity,...  Read More >>

An understanding of developments in Arabic mathematics between the IXth and XVth century is vital to a full appreciation...  Read More >>

Johann Valentin Andrere (1586-1654) was a multi-faceted product of late­ Reformation Germany.  Read More >>

Linnaeus' mature theodicy, his attempt to reconcile the suffering and evil of the world with the omnipotence and...  Read More >>

Some of the topics are familiar to Leibniz students - harmony, sufficient reason and possible worlds, for instance...  Read More >>

Martin of Oxford University in 1980 when I mentioned to him that I was making a study of the professionalization...  Read More >>

The present essays reflect this diversification in discussing the extension of Kantian ethics in the domains of...  Read More >>

Although he is primarily known for his expertise in the field of Kantian philosophy, Werkie's published scholarship...  Read More >>

The study of natural law theories in the early Enlightenment continues to be one of the most fruitful areas of research...  Read More >>

In three volumes, this book contains contributions from a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines...  Read More >>

Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between...  Read More >>

Until now, most biographies of More have ignored these, his own, preoccupations, and have made of him a rather eccentric...  Read More >>

Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology...  Read More >>

In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes- sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub-...  Read More >>

Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual...  Read More >>

We are often told that quantum phenomena demand radical revisions of our scientific world view and that no physical...  Read More >>