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By almost any measure Bernardino Barbatelli, called Poccetti, was a successful and sought after painter in late sixteent
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Educator and reformer Peter Ramus (1515-72) was known for his rash assaults on the most esteemed and cherished foundatio
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were s
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From the author of 'When did the Mahabharata War happen? The Mystery of Arundhati'. Employing tools of Archeo-
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D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so
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One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Mo
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We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy us. Capitalism and its by-prod
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This title was first published in 1968. The dynamic advance of scientific discovery in recent decades, together with the
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At the End of an Age is a deeply informed and rewarding reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge.
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