科学与认知发展史
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Eric Crahan
Editorial Director, Humanities & Social Sciences
作为阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦着作的出版商，普林斯顿大学出版社拥有悠久的科学历史作品出版传统。我们出版包含范围最广的知识与科学历史书籍。我们的书单中包含自然科学史和物理科学史领域从古至今的书籍，同时也包括人文和社会科学史、学术学科史以及书籍发展史。
我们力求使整个书单在时间、主题和方法上呈现全球性和多样性特点
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Wound Man
The Wound Man—a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases—was 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’s 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’s editors’ 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’s newest volume: Einstein wrestles with politics and physics, 1929–1930
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’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students.
