This category contains works presenting the history of a particular subject or period in time.
The legacy of the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century polymath Alexander von Humboldt is as extraordinary as the life he lived. Natural philosopher, world traveler, explorer, mountain climber, geographer, social and political thinker, von Humboldt packed so much into his eighty-nine years of existence on our planet that in reading his biography it is sometimes […]
In his new book “Black Gold; The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal,” Prof. Bob Wyss presents a detailed and multi-faceted narrative history of the industry that includes the effects it has had upon American society, organized labor, governmental policy, and U.S. natural resource management.
The rise of journals in the fields of natural history in general and entomology in particular greatly assisted in the formation of communities of interest in the study of such subjects. Dr. Matthew Wale explains in his “Making Entomologists.”
As someone who nourishes active interests in both the arts and the sciences, particularly natural philosophy, and the literature and history of early modern England, I could scarcely believe my good fortune to have been made aware of “Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance.”