Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science....

David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science....

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...

The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...

Bian offers a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China..

What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?

Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...

The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old...

Duncombe considers ancient views of relativity from Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics (particularly Simplicius), and the Stoics (particularly Sextus Empiricus)...

An interview with Martin Edwards

Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...

Godart brings to life more than a century of ideas by examining how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious thinkers of different faiths, philosophers, biologists, journalists, activists, and ideologues engaged with evolutionary theory and religion....

Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”

Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.

Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...

The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...

Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919...

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...

In the late 1500s, the mines of Potosí –a mountain in southern Bolivia — produced 60% of the world’s silver...

"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...

Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...

Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...

Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?

Where did ethnography come from?

Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...