Assembles the twentieth-century philosopher's ideas and conclusions regarding issues and problems pertaining to word usage.

Originally published in 1996, this book contains a translation and study of Euclid's Phaenomena, a work which once formed part of the mathematical training of astronomers from Central Asia to Western Europe.

Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived.

Winner of the Bronze Medal for Science in the 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards In this companion volume to John Bisney and J. L. Pickering’s extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, the ...

In this moving and eloquent portrait, Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science.

This work offers a survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700.

In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents of the work of early modern astronomers.