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Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader by Simon Schaffer 9780226831770
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer,... -
Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader Simon Schaffer 9780226831794
Booksplease Price: £32.30Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer,... -
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela H. Smith 9780691173238
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and... -
Empire, The Sea and Global History: Britain's Maritime World, c.1760-c.1840 by Mr David Cannadine 9780230008991
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28The essays in this collection offer the path-breaking research of leading scholars to explore the significance and complexities of Britain's maritime world in this key period through a series of... -
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin 9780691178165
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.98Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise... -
Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 by J. Raymond 9780230552036
Booksplease Price: £112.12Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This... -
Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany by H. C. Erik Midelfort 9780300106695
Booksplease Price: £50.72In the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727-1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human... -
Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines James Chandler 9780226100838
Booksplease Price: £30.73Biologists, historians, lawyers, art historians, and literary critics all voice arguments in the critical dialogue about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only... -
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens by John Robert Christianson
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.26The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry and built... -
Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences by Robert P. Crease 9780792348108
Booksplease Price: £92.06philosophers with both hermeneutic-phenomenological and scientific back- grounds (such as Heelan, Ihde, Theodore Kisiel, Joseph Kockelmans) have begun to read the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,... -
Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences by Robert P. Crease 9789401065115
Booksplease Price: £90.34philosophers with both hermeneutic-phenomenological and scientific back- grounds (such as Heelan, Ihde, Theodore Kisiel, Joseph Kockelmans) have begun to read the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,... -
Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture by Menachem Fisch 9780253333162
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32" . . . a fascinating and thought-provoking book . . . " -The Jewish Quarterly"The best introduction to the talmudic literature that is available. . . . An extraordinarily important book, brilliant,... -
Picturing Science, Producing Art by Peter Galison
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The... -
The Anatomy of Riches: Sir Robert Paston's Treasure by Spike Bucklow 9781780239798
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30The Anatomy of Riches tells the story of one family's long rise from rags to riches, and their rapid reversal of fortune. It focuses on the life of Sir Robert Paston, who experienced the family's... -
Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication by Timothy Lenoir 9780804727778
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Metaphors of inscription and writing figure prominently in all levels of discourse in and about science. The description of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics has been a common... -
Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe by Pamela Smith 9780415928168
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles... -
A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Revised Edition by Michael D. Gordin 9780691172385
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing is an... -
Why It's OK to Trust Science by Keith M. Parsons 9780367616410
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.00Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than "other ways of knowing?" Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppression? This book boldly takes on these and... -
The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell by P. M. Harman
Booksplease Price: £26.61This book provides an introductory yet comprehensive account of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-79) physics and worldview. The argument is structured by a focus on the fundamental themes which shaped... -
Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue Yves Gingras 9781509518937
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake... -
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy by Niccolo Guicciardini 9781780239064
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20Isaac Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of a contemporary scientist. He was deeply involved in... -
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation by Steven Shapin 9780226750248
Booksplease Price: £27.92Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? "The Scientific Life" is historian Steven Shapin's story about... -
A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 by Lukas M. Verburgt 9783030852573
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), placing him at the heart of... -
William Robert Grove: Victorian Gentleman of Science Iwan Rhys Morus 9781786830043
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly influential figure in Victorian science. His career... -
The Values of Precision by M. Norton Wise
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £64.81The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century... -
Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: £48.31Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it... -
A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 by Lukas M. Verburgt 9783030852603
Booksplease Price: £36.44This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), placing him at the heart of... -
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation by Steven Shapin
Booksplease Price: £20.42Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? "The Scientific Life" is historian Steven Shapin's story about... -
The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell by P. M. Harman 9780521561020
Booksplease Price: £116.10This book provides an introductory yet comprehensive account of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-79) physics and worldview. The argument is structured by a focus on the fundamental themes which shaped... -
Ideas on the Nature of Science David Cayley 9780864925442
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where... -
Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue Yves Gingras 9781509518920
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake... -
Generations of Reason: A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England by Joan L. Richards
Booksplease Price: £36.45An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family This book recounts the story of three... -
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority by Steven Shapin
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.54Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure... -
Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration Fraser MacDonald 9781138547254
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the... -
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World James Delbourgo 9780415961271
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and... -
Unearthed: Science and Environment Across Mineral Frontiers Patrick Anthony 9780226847511
Booksplease Price: £33.90How nineteenth-century environmental sciences laid the groundwork for global mineral extraction. Unearthed depicts a pivotal moment during the nineteenth century: As European and settler schemes to... -
The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin 9781551118963
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £19.43Arguably the first work of science fiction in English, Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone was published in 1638, pseudonymously and posthumously. The novel, which tells the story of Domingo... -
The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century by Thomas Simpson 9781108794121
Booksplease Price: £26.61Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through... -
The Scientific Counter-Revolution: The Jesuits and the Invention of Modern Science by Dr Michael John Gorman 9781350091955
Booksplease Price: £112.13Jesuit engagement with natural philosophy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries transformed the status of the mathematical disciplines and propelled members of the Order into key areas of... -
The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science since 1960 by Peter Collins 9781108705806
Booksplease Price: £41.37The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly marginalised by postwar developments and the reforms of...