History of Science & Knowledge
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity
The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”
A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus’s life and work
A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire
An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality
How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science
How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirth
Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle East
A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels—and the surprising truths behind them
An English-language edition of selected correspondence and papers of Albert Einstein
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert Einstein
A panoramic history of rules in the Western world
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology
How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war
How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy—and what we can learn from them