History of Science & Technology

Originally published in 1928, Dorsey attempts to provide a detailed account of Darwin's life and personality informed by letters, published works and an autobiography written by Darwin. This title will be of interest to students of evolutionary biology and history of science...

Originally published in 1928, Dorsey attempts to provide a detailed account of Darwin's life and personality informed by letters, published works and an autobiography written by Darwin. This title will be of interest to students of evolutionary biology and history of science...

The General Principles of Quantum Theory..

More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century, however only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period...

Although biography as a genre has increasingly become a topic of scholarly inquiry, the genre of scientific biography; those biographies of scientists, engineers and medical doctors; has largely been overlooked. It is to remedy this situation that this volume has been conceived. Borrowing approaches..

Although biography as a genre has increasingly become a topic of scholarly inquiry, the genre of scientific biography; those biographies of scientists, engineers and medical doctors; has largely been overlooked. It is to remedy this situation that this volume has been conceived. Borrowing approaches..

The depths of the oceans are the last example of terra incognita on earth. Adamowsky presents a study of the sea, arguing that – contrary to popular belief – post-Enlightenment discourse on the sea was still subject to mystery and wonder, and not wholly rationalized by science...

The Progress of Science..

This study offers a definitive account of the state of microscopy in the eighteenth century, of the main concerns of those involved in the field and how microscopists learned to communicate their findings to each other. It will be essential reading for all historians of microscopy and for those stud..

This title was first published in 2002: Bruce Eastwood shows how, using classical Roman texts, scholars in the early medieval West gradually produced models of planetary motion and learned certain data of planetary astronomy. Their diagrams, excerpts, glosses, and commentary provide us with the cruc..

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...