An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.

The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and esta

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to developments in life and earth sciences since 1800.

This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the I

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.