History of Science & Technology

Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning human importance...

Galileo, the Jesuits, and the Medieval Aristotle..

First Published in 1914. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1914. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing milit..

Research into public health policies and hygiene instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context and there is a rich historiography that analyses the development of health policies and systems in various European and American countries during the first decades of the 20th century..

Historical Disasters in Context explores the close and complex relationship between human civilization and the physical environment that supports. Through a broad range of case studies from different historical periods and geographical regions, it reveals the subtle ways in which small and big disas..

First published in 1935 (this edition in 1946), this short account of the science of embryology was the first book in English to provide a simple outline of the whole of this important subject. The study of development is perhaps the best method of approach to the most fundamental of all biological ..

Originally published in 1912, Industry in England provides a complete history of industry and industrial changes in England from pre-roman times to modern England as it stood in the early twentieth century. This title will be of interest to students of History...

Originally published in 1912, Industry in England provides a complete history of industry and industrial changes in England from pre-roman times to modern England as it stood in the early twentieth century. This title will be of interest to students of History...

This volume comprises nine articles on Islamic astronomy published since 1989 by Benno van Dalen. The five articles in the first part of this collection explain the principles of a range of statistical methods for determining unknown parameter values underlying astronomical tables and present extens..

Jeremiah Joyce..