Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
This series seeks to capture the traditional history of science and technology, and emphasizes explanations of the hard science practices that it seeks to historicize.
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Picturing Machines 1400–1700
ISBN: 9780262550888
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.
Molecular World
Making Modern Chemistry
ISBN: 9780262545549
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 4, 2023
A compelling and innovative account that reshapes our view of nineteenth-century chemistry, explaining a critical period in chemistry's quest to understand and manipulate organic nature.
Age of Auto Electric
Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car
ISBN: 9780262544573
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 6, 2022
The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles.
Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy
Contexts of Creation and Reception
ISBN: 9780262045735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics.
Technoscience in History
Prussia, 1750–1850
ISBN: 9780262539296
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 22, 2020
The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the “useful” sciences in Prussia.
Bridging the Seas
The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000
ISBN: 9780262538077
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2020
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships.
Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
ISBN: 9780262516488
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics.
The Body Populace
Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
ISBN: 9780262536325
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 15, 2019
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
ISBN: 9780262516150
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2011
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.
Picturing Machines 1400–1700
ISBN: 9780262550888
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.
Molecular World
Making Modern Chemistry
ISBN: 9780262545549
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 4, 2023
A compelling and innovative account that reshapes our view of nineteenth-century chemistry, explaining a critical period in chemistry's quest to understand and manipulate organic nature.
Age of Auto Electric
Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car
ISBN: 9780262544573
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 6, 2022
The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles.
Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy
Contexts of Creation and Reception
ISBN: 9780262045735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics.
Technoscience in History
Prussia, 1750–1850
ISBN: 9780262539296
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 22, 2020
The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the “useful” sciences in Prussia.
Bridging the Seas
The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000
ISBN: 9780262538077
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2020
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships.
Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
ISBN: 9780262516488
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics.
The Body Populace
Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
ISBN: 9780262536325
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 15, 2019
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
ISBN: 9780262516150
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2011
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.