First published in 1907, this title offers a comprehensive introduction to the steady development of the science since its inception in the ancient world up to the momentous progress of the nineteenth century. It includes biographical material relating to the most famous names in the study of astron..
First published in 1907, this title offers a comprehensive introduction to the steady development of the science since its inception in the ancient world up to the momentous progress of the nineteenth century. It includes biographical material relating to the most famous names in the study of astron..
A History of Science in World Cultures explores the developments in premodern science from a global perspective, demonstrating that scientific thought and influence cannot be confined to any one time period or culture. Covering Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Greece, early Islam, and Mesoamerica,..
A History of Science in World Cultures explores the developments in premodern science from a global perspective, demonstrating that scientific thought and influence cannot be confined to any one time period or culture. Covering Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Greece, early Islam, and Mesoamerica,..
Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon technology, and if so how is it dependent? Or, are science and technology becoming so interdependent that the line dividing them has become totally er..
First published in 1939 (second impression in 1950), this book provides an account of the changes in, and main principles of, genetics at that time. These are illustrated by references to the most authoritative and then recent investigations. Special attention is paid to the way in which genetics ov..
Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first modern armaments company, Sir William G. Armstrong Whitworth Company, from 1854 to 1914. The study focuses on Sir William G. Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his mechanical engineering business into a vast industrial enterpris..
Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first modern armaments company, Sir William G. Armstrong Whitworth Company, from 1854 to 1914. The study focuses on Sir William G. Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his mechanical engineering business into a vast industrial enterpris..
The studies in this collection are based on previously unexploited manuscript sources in Arabic and Persian, written by authors from the 9th through to the 15th centuries, whose locations reached from south China in the east through Central Asia, the Middle and Near East, and North Africa, to Spain..