Overview :Most recent work on the nature of experiment in physics has focused on "big science" the large-scale research addressed in Andrew Pickering'... Read More
Overview :The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of... Read More
Overview :Contributors.- Charles Gillispie.- Archaeology.- Astronomy.- Chemistry.- Geology, Biology and Natural Theology.- Mathematics.- Medicine and ... Read More
Overview :Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controv... Read More
Overview :This book is an attempt to reconstitute the tacit knowledge-the shared, unwritten assumptions, values, and understandings-that shapes the wo... Read More
Overview :The legendary rivalry behind the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphsIn 1799, a French officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the ... Read More
Overview :The Dendera zodiac--an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets--was first discovered by t... Read More
Overview :In the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form o... Read More