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A Comprehensible Universe : The Interplay of Science and Theology

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore ...

A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980

This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...

A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple

The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas ...

An American Scientist on the Research Frontier

This important examination of Morley’s struggle for personal and professional legitimacy extends and transforms our understanding ...

Bearing Witness Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)

This book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...

Buchi neri nel mio bagno di schiuma : L’enigma di Einstein = Black holes in my bubble bath : Einstein's riddle

Einstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...

Clashes of Knowledge : Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England : Ravenous Natures

Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...

Data Journeys in the Sciences

This groundbreaking, book analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases ...

De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...

Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science

This is the first volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve ...

Einsteins Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath

Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath tells the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins ...

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

The second edition of this landmark encyclopaedia will contain approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history ...

Executing Magic in the Modern Era

This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...

Exploring the Moon : The Apollo Expeditions

the book develops the scientific theme of lunar geology, and therefore will be of use as background reading for undergraduate ...

Expounding the Mathematical Seed. Vol. 1: The Translation

Subjects treated in Bhaskara’s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral tetrahedron to the interest ...

Expounding the Mathematical Seed. Vol. 2: The Supplements

Subjects treated in Bhaskara’s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral tetrahedron to the interest ...

Feyerabend’s Epistemological Anarchism

argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer ...

Gaithers Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Finding words of wisdom about science is now easy with Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Organized thematically ...

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