This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and

Publisher's description: This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the ei

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missio

Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equip