"Oppenheimer reveals its subject as both an expert working on behalf of the state and an intellectual with broad cultural and moral authority.

This text offers a historical perspective on the interactions between the social and natural sciences. The core of this book consists of two long essays. The first focuses on the role of analogies as linking factors between the two realms.

This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy, plus useful tables, figures and photos, and 20 ‘Science Progress Reports’ ...

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems.

A Most Interesting Problem features contributions by Janet Browne, Jeremy DeSilva, Holly Dunsworth, Agustín Fuentes, Ann Gibbons, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Brian Hare, John Hawks, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Kristina Killgrove, Alice Roberts, ...

Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding.

This highly readable book provides the first full account of Forman's papers, makes sense of hisnotorious reputation, and vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.

A history of the study of the tides over two millennia, from Ancient Greeks to present sophisticated space-age techniques.

Las revistas académicas, dotadas hoy de un notable dinamismo, constituyen el principal canal de comunicación de los avances científicos.

Time Travelers is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions.