Call for Book Proposals Brill History of Modern Science Series Editors: Massimiliano Badino, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Kostas Gavroglu, University of Athens Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Aims & Scope The nineteenth century has witnessed the unprecedented development of classical physics, the multifarious use of physics and chemistry in industry, the rise of evolutionary theories in biology and geology, and a number of groundbreaking developments in mathematics. Though most of these trends continued into the twentieth century, the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics transformed radically the classical view of physics and research in the life sciences revealed a number of astonishing results. Furthermore, during the second half of the twentieth century, “Big Science” has come to characterize the dramatic institutional metamorphoses of science. Historians and sociologists of science, in ever increasing numbers, have been offering...
