科学与认知发展史
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Eric Crahan
Editorial Director, Humanities & Social Sciences
作为阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦著作的出版商，普林斯顿大学出版社拥有悠久的科学历史作品出版传统。我们出版包含范围最广的知识与科学历史书籍。我们的书单中包含自然科学史和物理科学史领域从古至今的书籍，同时也包括人文和社会科学史、学术学科史以及书籍发展史。
我们力求使整个书单在时间、主题和方法上呈现全球性和多样性特点
New & Noteworthy
Ideas
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What can we learn from Einstein today?
Einstein has left his mark not only on physics of the twentieth century but also on the public image of science and scientists and on the cultural and political history of the twentieth century, far beyond his area of expertise.
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The guardian tree: The birthplace of Carl Linnaeus
In ancient times, Nordic people believed that the World Tree was an ash and the protective guardian tree a linden—a Tilia. The biography of Linnaeus should surely begin with a linden.
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Meaning and the hard problem of life
In the middle of the twentieth century something happened to the meaning of “meaning.” Until then meaning had been associated with concepts, definitions, and language—and so associated strongly with the human animals who hold concepts, define things, and speak. But now it came to be connected to a term, information, that was sponsoring revolutions in areas from computation to biology.
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A look inside Bedeviled
The glass of science is half empty. Researchers across the globe are fixated on all that we do not know yet. It was the same one hundred years ago, and more than one hundred years before then too.
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Book Club Pick: The Slow Moon Climbs
Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moon Climbs, reveals just how wrong we have been.
