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This book explores evidence of astrology, mysticism and other elements of the supernatural in presocratic Greek thought.

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In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates the secrecy that has surrounded much of this legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison uses Pasteur's laboratory notebooks, made available only recently, and his published papers to present a rich and full account of some of the

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A brief and accessible introduction to molecular biology for students and professionals who want to understand this rapidly expanding field.

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By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, the author reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. It shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier.

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This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science series provides a history of quantum mechanics from the early breakthroughs of Planck and Einstein, at the beginning of the 20th century, to the present frontiers of quantum computing and quantum gravity.

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"George Poinar began collecting amber specimins over thirty years ago, but it was only recently that he, Roberta Poinar, and the rest of his research team astounded the scientific community with the ne"

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Is there life on Mars If not, why not These questions have gripped mankind throughout the twentieth century. In the shadow of the new millennium, The Genesis Question seeks the answers from the scientists participating in the race to discover life on the Red Planet.

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When we read that scientists have come close to pinpointing the "origin of the universe" by means of a Big Bang cosmology, can we doubt that such inquiries or their results inevitably raise important philosophical questions This book attempts to answer such questions by examining scientific theories of cosmology in a philosophical context.

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In 1920, Pierre Fatou expressed the conjecture that - except for special cases - all critical points of a rational map of the Riemann sphere tend to periodic orbits under iteration. This book provides a proof of the Real Fatou Conjecture. It includes a self-contained and complete version of the argument.

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Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science. This title covers Darwin's reception across Europe and his influence on European science and culture. It conveys the many-sidedness of Darwin's reception and exhibits his far-reaching impact on our self-understanding as human beings.

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The New York Times bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientific truth

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Throughout the 19th century, women inventors developed significant technologies, yet, because of complex cultural barriers and the pervasive image of the inventor as male, their technological contributions have until now been ignored and undervalued.

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This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools fo

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The Science Communication Challenge explores and discusses the whys as distinct from the hows of science communication. Arguing that the dominant science communication paradigm is didactic, and tracing the origins of that paradigm, it makes the case for a political category of science communication, aimed at furthering discussions of science-related public affairs.

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Designed as an introduction to the age of the scientific revolution, this book offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of narrative chapters, biographical sketches of key figures, and annotated primary documents.

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An encyclopedic collection of key scientists and the tools and concepts they developed that transformed our understanding of the physical world.