History of Science & Technology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16

   Edited by Lodewijk C. Palm

   In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 25 letters of Van Leeuwenhoek have been included, all of them written from July 1707 to June 1712. The letters were written to six distinct addressees. The larger part was addressed to the Royal Society in London in general (sixteen...

   Published April 4th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Case Studies on Modern European Economy

   Entrepreneurship, Inventions, and Institutions

   By Ivan Berend

   The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Cooke and Wheatstone

   And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph

   By Geoffrey Hubbard

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities

   By John R. Kellett

   The arrival of the railway was one of the most far reaching events in the history of the Victorian city. The present study, based upon detailed case histories of Britain's five largest cities (London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool), shows how the railways gave Victorian cities their...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. François Blondel

   Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

   By Anthony Gerbino

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry

   A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3

   By Roshdi Rashed

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3, provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The present text is complemented by two preceding...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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