Asimov I. A Short History of Chemistry

Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 688 pp. This book in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of the life and earth sciences since 1800. It provides comprehensive and authoritative surveys of historical thinking on major developments in these areas of science, on the social and cultural milieus in which the knowledge was generated, and on the wider impact of the major theoretical and practical innova...

Springer, 2012 - 458 p. New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders. ISBN10: 9400726260 ISBN13: 9789400726260 (eng)

Pluto Press, 2001 - 216 p. This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century.The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthro...

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011, 436 pages History of Modern Physical Sciences, 2 edition The book is a collection of memoirs on famous Soviet physicists of the 20th century, such as Tamm, Vavilov, Sakharov, Landau and others. The memoirs were originally written in Russian by E L Feinberg. The narrative is situated within a remarkably well-described historical, cultural and social context. Of special interest are the chapters devoted...

Cambridge University Press, 1995. - 323 pp. Fritz London was one of the twentieth century's key figures in the development of quantum physics. A quiet and self-effacing man, he was one of the founders of quantum chemistry, and was the first to give a phenomenological explanation of superconductivity. This thoroughly researched biography gives a detailed account of London's life and work in Munich, Berlin, Oxford, Paris, and finally in the United...

Wiley. 2007. 687 p. Practical Chemistry: Mining, Metallurgy and War Spiritual and Allegorical Alchemy and Chemistry Medicines, Purges, and Ointments An Emerging Science The Chemical Revolution A Young Democracy and a New Chemistry Chemistry Begins to Specialize, Systemize, and Help the Farm and the Factory Teaching Chemistry to the Masses Chemistry Enters the Modern Age Some Brief Chemical Amusements

2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. 2002. 440 p. The exploration of space. Global warming. Napoleon and science. The entry of women into astronomy. The exploration of Australia. The history of astronomy. Telescopes. The history of nuclear and particle physics. Pheromones. The history of mathematics. The Darwin/Wedgwood/Galton relationships. Mnemonics. The geological timescale. Science and the First World War (1914–18). The history of medicine. Sc...

Cambridge University Press, 2002. - 708 pp. This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from intellectual history, social history, and cultural studies to provide unusually wide-ranging and...

Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 839 pp. Review "This book is an excellent source for current thinking on Early Modern Science. The chapters are writtten by the leading shcolars n their respective fields. This book, along with the rest of the Cambridge History of Science series, belongs in all academic and large public libraries." - American Reference Books Annual "The real value of the volume, in my eyes at least, is its contribution to _ea...

Forty-two essays by authors from five continents and many disciplines provide a synthetic account of the history of the social sciences-including behavioral and economic sciences since the late eighteenth century. The authors emphasize the cultural and intellectual preconditions of social science, and its contested but important role in the history of the modern world. While there are many historical books on particular disciplines, there are ver...