Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series

39 primary works • 39 total works
This series seeks to capture the traditional history of science and technology, and emphasizes explanations of the hard science practices that it seeks to historicize.

Published by MIT Press
Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice und…
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Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry
After looking at the early careers of Wurtz's two …
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Wireless: From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion
By 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Cl…
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Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge…
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Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was viewed f…
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Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transform…
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Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution
A study of French military engineers at a crucial …
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Picturing Machines 1400-1700
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· 4 Ratings · published 2004 · 5 editions
How technical drawings shaped early engineering pr…
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Historia: Empiricism And Erudition In Early Modern Europe
Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects …
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The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
How Revolutionary-era France, rejecting the exampl…
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American Hegemony And the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
In 1945, the United States was not only the strong…
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Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Historically, music was long classified as both ar…
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Ships And Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600 1800
"Naval architecture was born in the mountains of P…
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Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870
The cultural history of scholars from a range of d…
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Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology
In the eighteenth century, chemistry was the scien…
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Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
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· 161 Ratings · 26 Reviews · published 2007 · 2 editions
The Islamic scientific tradition has been describe…
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Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990
This analysis of the relationship between science …
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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
A radical revision of the geographical history of …
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Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology
For much of the first half of the twentieth centur…
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H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation
The German translation of Darwin's The Origin of S…
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A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
The rise and fall of the concept of nuclear winter…
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Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
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· 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 6 editions
Historians of mathematics have devoted considerabl…
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Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926
An intellectual and cultural history of the birth …
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Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist an…
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Neither Physics Nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry
The evolution of a discipline at the intersection …
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Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820
An argument that the gas industry was the first in…
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The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910
An examination of how the scientific study of soun…
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Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgott…
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Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
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· 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 7 editions
How engineers and agricultural scientists became k…
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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped n…
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The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
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· 25 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 7 editions
The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through whi…
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Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960
The evolution of a set of fields--including operat…
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Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850-1930
Investigations of how the understanding of heredit…
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Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation
How America used its technological leadership in t…
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The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound
The transformation of acoustics into electro-acous…
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The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
How data gathered from national conscriptions in p…
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Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800-2000
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel req…
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Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750-1850
The relationship of the current technosciences and…
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Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception
An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon …
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