ISBN: HB: 9780300250022,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
352 pp.,
23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
ISBN: HB: 9780226710709,
University of Chicago Press,
August 2020
416 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 tables
In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could...
ISBN: PB: 9780226365763,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2020
608 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones, 14 line drawings
In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its infl...
ISBN: PB: 9780226699820,
ISBN: HB: 9780226699790,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
280 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 1 table
The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath's "Making Spirit Matter" s...
ISBN: HB: 9780226700786,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
504 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings
This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...
ISBN: PB: 9780226676791,
ISBN: HB: 9780226676654,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
312 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...
ISBN: PB: 9780226680866,
ISBN: HB: 9780226680729,
University of Chicago Press,
April 2020
272 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it reall...
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metro...
Harold C. Urey (1893-1981) was one of the most famous American scientists of the twentieth century. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium and heavy water, Urey later participated in the Manhattan Project and NASA's lunar expl...
ISBN: HB: 9780226651385,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
632 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 64 tables
Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1...