History of Science & Knowledge
New & Forthcoming Titles - May 2026
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Petrus Cruciferus, Nicolaus Wodka, John of Głogów
Tabule Resolute
The Central European Type
of Alfonsine Tables
Alena Hadravová, Petr Hadrava
This monograph presents a Latin edition and English commented translation of the Tabule resolute, a medieval set of Alfonsine astronomical tables and rules (canons) for calculation of the planetary motions, widespread in Central Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries.
578 p., 26 b/w + 26 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61712-1 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61713-8
Alfonsine Astronomy, vol. 4
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Latin Ptolemaic Writings on Astronomy and Astrology
up to AD 1700
A Comprehensive Survey of the Works, Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions
David Juste
This book offers a survey of the 180 Latin Ptolemaic works identified to date, together with a catalogue of 693 manuscripts and 104 early printed editions of these works.
2 vols, 1000 p., 32 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-60715-3 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-60716-0
Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus - Studies, vol. 3
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Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination
Acts of the XXVII Annual Colloquium of the SIEPM, Trento 12-15 September 2023
Alessandro Palazzo, Francesca Bonini, Amalia Cerrito (eds)
This volume explores a range of theories and debates on foreknowledge (future contingents, prophecy, eschatology, scientific prognostication, and divination) across various disciplinary fields and medieval traditions.
xx + 564 p., 3 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61981-1 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61982-8
Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale, vol. 31
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Temps, sciences et empire
Cosmographie et navigation dans les monarchies ibériques au XVIe siècle
Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi
Temps, sciences et empire explore la manière dont les acteurs des monarchies portugaise et espagnole ont construit le savoir cosmographique et nautique à l’aune d’une conceptualisation du temps.
279 p., 16 col. ills, 2025
ISBN 978-2-503-61372-7 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61373-4
Techne, vol. 13
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Medical Theory and Practice
in Early Modern Italy
Sandra Cavallo, John Henderson (eds)
This book sheds new light on the intricate relationship between theory and practice in early modern medicine through a series of themes: bodies and disease, medical treatment, pharmacy and public health.
x + 198 p., 33 col. ills, 2025
ISBN 978-1-915487-65-0 (HB)
The Medici Archive Project, vol. 9
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Naming Pathology from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Alessandra Foscati, Michèle Goyens (eds)
This book analyses the constitution of the lexicon of pathology from Antiquity to the Early Modern period, revealing continuity and change in the perception, representation and theoretic paradigm of the disease lexicon, in a wide range of cultural contexts (Greek, Latin, Arabic and the vernacular).
273 p., 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-62011-4 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-62012-1
Lectio, vol. 20
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Techniques et religions
Cultures techniques, croyances, circulations de l’Antiquité à nos jours
Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Sébastien Pautet (eds)
Technique et religion: depuis l’Antiquité, comment penser la technique comme constitutive de notre rapport au monde et à l’humain ?
364 p., 29 b/w, 4 col. ills,1 map col., 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-59358-6 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-59359-3
Techne - Global Matters, vol. 14
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Projecting Knowledge
The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s–1940s
Dulce Da Rocha Gonçalves, Nico de Klerk, Frank Kessler, Jamilla Notebaard (eds)
This volume focusses on the role of the optical lantern in knowledge transmission.
284 p., 28 b/w, 64 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61294-2 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61295-9
Techne - Media Performance Histories, vol. 17
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Debating Inoculation
in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Yasmine Marcil (ed)
This volume uncovers transnational public debates on inoculation against small pox in eighteenth-century Europe, through the lens of periodical press sources.
180 p., 2025
ISBN 978-2-503-60129-8 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-60130-4
Techne, vol. 15
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The Knowledge of Humanities
A Comparative Epistemology of Historiography, Literary Criticism, History of Art, and History of Architecture
Andrea Bonaccorsi
Going deeply into some of the most representative authors in humanities of the XX century Andrea Bonaccorsi distills a number of scientific principles and opens the path for a new dialogue with recent developments in epistemology.
323 p., 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61874-6 (PB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61875-3
New Series: Research on Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 1
Sample Pages Available
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Centaurus.
Journal of the European Society for the History of Science,
Vol. 67 (2025), Issue 2
272 p., 23 b/w + 25 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61541-7 (PB)
Centaurus, vol. 67.2 (2025)
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Journal for the History of Knowledge 6 (2025)
Special Issue: Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern Worlds
328 p., 4 b/w + 28 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61559-2 (PB)
Journal for the History of Knowledge, vol. 6 (2025)
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Selected Forthcoming Titles
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Imagination and Performing Bodies
Imagination, corps et performance
Elizabeth Claire, Béatrice Delaurenti, Roberto Poma, Koen Vermeir (eds)
This edited collection of historical scholarship examines various theories of corporeal perception issuing from natural philosophy, medicine, aesthetics, and performance to explore understandings of the material powers of the imagination as a force for action, liberty, invention, contagion and cure.
approx. 300 p., 24 b/w + 6 col. ills, July 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61703-9 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61704-6
Techne - Techniques, Imagination, and the Body, vol. 18
Contains contributions in Open Access
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Performing Science,
Mediating Knowledge
Science, Showmanship, and the Performance of Authority in the Long Nineteenth Century
Nele Wynants, Eva Andersen (eds)
This volume explores how science was staged, visualized and embodied in nineteenth and early twentieth century lectures, fairs, world exhibitions, and magic lantern shows. Bridging performance studies, media history, and science communication, it reveals how gestures, rhetoric, and visual spectacle shaped public engagement with science across diverse cultural and political settings.
approx. 338 p., 86 col. ills, August 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61664-3 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61665-0
Techne - Media Performance Histories, vol. 21
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Spectacles of Light
The Magic Lantern as Popular Entertainment, 1810-1930
Kurt Vanhoutte, Eleonora Paklons, Evelien Jonckheere, Leen Engelen (eds)
Spectacles of Light explores the magic lantern's extraordinary role in shaping popular performance and entertainment in the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.
332 p., 42 b/w + 57 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-62220-0 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-62221-7
Techne - Media Performance Histories, vol. 19
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Illusionnisme et magie à la Renaissance
Savoirs techniques et représentations sociales de l’art du merveilleux
Thibaut Rioult
Première enquête d’envergure consacrée à la place centrale de l’illusionnisme dans la société et la pensée renaissantes, cet ouvrage comble une lacune majeure en révélant le rôle décisif de ces pratiques spectaculaires dans la formation de l’Europe moderne, à la croisée de la science, de l’art, de la magie, de la religion et des divertissements.
approx. 300 p., 72 col. ills, July 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61518-9 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61519-6
Techne - Media Performance Histories, vol. 20
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Soigner en ville
Praticiens, patients et conflits de santé à Paris et à Londres (1300-1560)
Hélène Leuwers
Appuyée sur des documents d’archives en grande partie inédits, cette étude examine les activités des praticiens de santé de Paris et de Londres à travers les procès engagés contre eux, ou par eux, à la fin du Moyen Âge.
415 p., July 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-60560-9 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-60561-6
Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), vol. 64
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Infirmeries monastiques et hospices
Lieux de soin du Moyen Âge à l’époque moderne
Anne Baud, Susan Boynton, Isabelle Cochelin, Anne Flammin (eds)
This collection of essays examines the organization, personnel, and patients of healthcare spaces in medieval and early modern Europe, using a diversity of methodological approaches through detailed studies and broader analyses across various regions, with a special focus on Cluny.
460 p., 94 b/w + 38 col. ills, June 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61924-8 (PB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61925-5
Disciplina Monastica, vol. 14
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