History of Science & Knowledge
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Eric Crahan
Editorial Director, Humanities & Social Sciences
As the publisher of Albert Einstein, 快色直播 has a longstanding tradition and commitment to the history of science, publishing books in the history of knowledge and science in the broadest sense. Our list encompasses the history of the natural and physical sciences, from antiquity
to the present, while also incorporating histories of the humanities and the social sciences, of academic disciplines, and of the book. Throughout, we strive to be global and diverse in period, topic, and methodology.
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Wound Man
The Wound Man鈥攁 medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases鈥攚as reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. Jack Hartnell charts the emergence and endurance of this striking image, used as a visual guide to the treatment of many ailments.
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Deep time and the Civil War dead
In rocky tombs, formed millions of years before Gettysburg, rested the fossilized remains of a riotous wonder of life that had cavorted and gnashed its way through the continent鈥檚 primordial seas and landscapes. This lost world had been unearthed piecemeal in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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Einstein Papers Project鈥檚 editors鈥� reflections on The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 17
Josh Eisenthal, EPP Editor, reflects on Einstein's second meeting with Rabindranath Tagore.
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Einstein Papers Project鈥檚 newest volume: Einstein wrestles with politics and physics, 1929鈥�1930
Since 1987 the Einstein Papers Project, based at Caltech, has been releasing a volume of Einstein's correspondence and papers approximately every three years. Volume 17 finds Einstein living mainly in Berlin, though traveling throughout Europe to attend conferences and receive honorary degrees.
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Listen in: Slouch
In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century鈥檚 worth of nude 鈥減osture鈥� photos of college students.
