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Nicolaas Rupke
In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. This is a biography of Owen.
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Can science and religion coexist in harmony? Or is conflict inevitable? In this volume an international team of distinguished scholars addresses these enduring yet urgent questions by examining the lives…
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Nicolaas A. Rupke
An exploration of the relationship between scientific ideas, technology, government and politics, demonstrated by examples from the last 150 years, including the birth of the NHS, the Channel Tunnel, radiation…
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography, and climatology, and his role as a popularizer of the sciences. This volume traces Humboldt’s biographical…
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Richard Owen was, after Darwin, the leading naturalist of 19th century Britain. In the debate over natural selection, Owen was Darwin’s most articulate and vociferous opponent. This book rehabilitates his…
The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate…
Charles Coulston Gillispie
First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches which, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted…
Alexander von Humboldt
Exploring the fields of meteorology, oceanography and seismology, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) embodied the enlightenment ideal as well as anyone in his age. This is the first of two volumes…
