History of Science | Comparor USA (7)

Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries

Explore how early neurologists, psychologists, and philosophers unraveled brain mysteries, revealing the evolution of thought, sensation, and consciousness through groundbreaking experiments and daring theories.

Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century

(9780226752051 / 5 halftones)

Histories of Scientific Observation

(9780226136783)

Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art

(9780393083361 / 9780393083361) | Colliding Worlds

America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

Explore how a silent killer reshaped society, science, and global politics in 1918, revealing hidden links between pandemics, war, and modern public health strategies.

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

(9780226750194)

The Pasteurization of France

Explore how Bruno Latour unravels France’s hidden layers, revealing a nation shaped by science, politics, and culture in a compelling narrative that bridges history with contemporary insight.

Articulating Dinosaurs: A Political Anthropology

(9781442627055) | Articulating Dinosaurs

Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

(9780674503816 / 9780674503816)

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact

(9780195168747 / 9780195168747)

A History of Natural Philosophy: From The Ancient World To The Nineteenth Century

(9780521689571)

The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun

Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present

(9781421401539)

A Short History of Scientific Thought

Palgrave (9780230019430) | History of science

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

(9780520071711)

Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa

(9780822326731) | Rich book

The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

(9780520078277 / 26 b&w illustrations)

Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930

(9780801846144 / 226, 226 black & white illustrations) | Modern electric power

Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science

(9780195096361 / 9780195096361)

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler

Kuperard (9780307351791 / 9780307351791)

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

(9780822330134)

Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics

(9780520208605) | Lise Meitner

Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

(9780226253251)

Understanding Imagination: The Reason of Images

Springer (9789400765061 / biography)

Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP

Johns Hopkins University Press (9781421418483 / 16, 16 black & white illustrations) | Chasing Sound, Music history

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

(9781439192375 / YES9269218)

Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy and Wireless Transmission of Power

Explore Nikola Tesla’s visionary ideas on free energy and wireless power transmission in this concise collection of his original papers, revealing groundbreaking concepts that still inspire modern innovation.

The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second Edition

(9780226482057 / 9780226482057) | Premodern European science