The Cambridge History of Science is to be published in eight substantial volumes, beginning with Ancient Mesopotamia and classical Greece and Rome, through the Medieval period, early modern Europe, ...

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin conducts research into how new categories of thinking, of proving and experiencing have developed during the centuries-long interaction ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title ...

The department has particular strengths in the History of Science, Technology and the Environment, and in Global History. Historians are not traditional scientists; there are no experiments we conduct ...

Earth orbit that included the world’s first commercial spacewalk as it aims to splash down off Florida’s coast.

Science fiction (SF) writing may seem a definitively modern phenomenon, but it has a rich and varied history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this course, we examine early modern SF not ...

As the publisher of Albert Einstein, Princeton University Press has a longstanding tradition and commitment to the history of science, publishing books in the history of knowledge and science in the ...

The table below sets out the time-scale of some of the major events in Earth history and developments in science and technology. It shows something of the parallel development of human ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1955 - 2020 Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932 - 1954 The British Journal for the History of Science 1962 - 2018 Bulletin of the ...

Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković changed our understanding of Earth’s climate—and did a key part of his work while detained by Austro-Hungarian forces Rudy Molinek Chemists accidentally ...