History of Science and Technology

A Collaborative Colloquium

The department runs its colloquium in cooperation with the Department of History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical School.
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Understand the Impact of Science

Undergraduates study science and medicine from a broad historical and social perspective.
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Challenge Your Ideas

The graduate program in the history of science, medicine, and technology is an internationally recognized center for teaching and research.
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Department News and Faculty Books

May 15, 2013
New Faculty Member

The department is pleased to welcome Yulia Frumer as assistant professor in East Asian History of Science and Technology. She comes to us from Princeton University and will be taking up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin before joining us in the summer of 2013.
November 1, 2012
The Secrets of Alchemy
The Secrets of Alchemy

In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits, Principe illuminates the [...]
April 16, 2010
Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution
Urban Modernity

At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture—an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. The authors show that this invention of modernity was brought about through the [...]
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