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A much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality.Questions about the naturalness or unnaturalness of homosexuality are as old …
A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn s …
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in …
A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era. Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer …
Lavishly illustrated volume revealing the intricacies of a 1742 map of the cosmos. The expansive and intricate Atlas Coelestis, created by Johann Doppelmayr in 1742, set out to …
A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This momentous biography tells the story of …
A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.The contributors to this collection focus on what happens to knowledge and know-how at national …
Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569 1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related …
A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A …
Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not …