History of Science & Technology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Handbook of Communication History

   Edited by Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T Craig, John Jackson

   Series: ICA Handbook Series

   The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

   Edited by Vasso Kindi, Theodore Arabatzis

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ancient Medicine

   2nd Edition

   By Vivian Nutton

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
4. Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. John Dee's Natural Philosophy

   Between Science and Religion

   By Nicholas Clulee

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career. Originally published in 1988, this interpretation is far more detailed than any that came before and is an authoritative account for anyone interested in the history, literature and scientific developments of the Renaissance, or...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge

   Giordano Bruno in England

   By Hilary Gatti

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Secret Tradition in Alchemy

   Its Development and Records

   By Arthur Edward Waite

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism. It outlines some of the ‘secret’ inner meanings to alchemy -...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Giordano Bruno

   His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom

   By William Boulting

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century. This book follows Bruno’s life and the development of his thought in the order in which he declared it. Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Alchemy in Europe

   A Guide to Research

   By Claudia Kren

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This comprehensive annotated bibliography, first published in 1990, guides the user helpfully through where to find information on various elements on alchemy when researching. Divided into categories to aid finding the right area of interest, this book forms a unique reference tool....

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700

    From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

    Edited by Robert M. Schuler

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

    Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are...

    Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge