Bøker av David Cahan

Both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier, this book traces Brace's scientific education and follows his career.

Definitive biography covering the life, world, and work of pioneering nineteenth-century German polymath Hermann von Helmholtz.

Eleven leading historians assess what their field has taught us about this time, and identify issues that remain unexamined or require reconsideration.

An Institute for an Empire is the first scholarly study of Imperial Germany's leading scientific institution. The Reichsanstalt demonstrated how physics and industrial technology could help build a modem society and a modem nation-state; it also encouraged and helped inaugurate the era of Big Science.