History of Science & Knowledge

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The Empire of Climate The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea David N. Livingstone

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity
Slouch Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America Beth Linker

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”
Natural Magic Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science Renée Bergland

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
The Man Who Organized Nature The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus Gunnar Broberg

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl Linnaeus
Radical by Nature Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace James T. Costa

A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire George Steinmetz

A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition Lorraine Daston

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality
The Einsteinian Revolution The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs Jürgen Renn and Hanoch Gutfreund

How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science

The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922–1923 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle East