Gaia's Gift

Earth, Ourselves and God after Copernicus

By Anne Primavesi

Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by...

Published June 19th 2003 by Routledge.

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Chinese Mathematical Astrology

Reaching Out to the Stars

By Ho Peng Yoke

Though there are a number of well-written works on Chinese divination, there are none that deal with the three sophisticated devices that were employed by...

Published May 22nd 2003 by Routledge.

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Ancient Meteorology

By Liba Taub

The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity...

Published May 15th 2003 by Routledge.

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A Chinese Physician

Wang Ji and the Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories

By Joanna Grant

A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Drawing on socio-economic/biographic, textual, and gender analysis along side a...

Published February 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Companion Encyclopedia of Science in the Twentieth Century

Edited by John Krige, Dominique Pestre

With over forty chapters, written by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume represents the best work in America, Europe and Asia. Geographical diversity of the authors...

Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Eureka! Moment

100 Key Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century

By Rupert Lee

Genius, Einstein said, is 99% perspiration. The other 1%--the moment of inspiration and insight--provides some of the best stories of our time. From superconductors to...

Published September 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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Science and Ideology

A Comparative History

By Mark Walker

Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated...

Published September 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Fight Against Cancer

France 1890-1940

By Patrice Pinell

Between the two World Wars an illness that mainly affects adults over fifty years old became so prominent that it superseded both tuberculosis and syphilis...

Published August 22nd 2002 by Routledge.

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Instruments, Travel and Science

Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Edited by Marie Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, H. Otto Sibum

We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates...

Published July 18th 2002 by Routledge.

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Adele Marion Fielde

Feminist, Social Activist, Scientist

By Leonard Warren

Adele Marion Fielde, born in 1839, was a teacher, an evangelist, a social activist, scientist, lexicographer, writer and lecturer. As an American missionary in China,...

Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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