History of Science

From Nobel Prizewinning physicist P. J. E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to todayModern cosmology began a century ago with Albert E...

A biography of the gifted ornithologist, animal painter, and writer whose extensive depictions of birds are still considered a monumental achieveme...

Albert Einsteins travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarke...

The story of the search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question...

A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalist Here is Charles Darwin in his own words--the naturalist...

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there wa...

No single figure embodies Cold War science more than the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although other scientists may have been more inf...

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as ma...

This catalogue accompanies a museum exhibition of the latest work of German artist, Thomas Struth. The touring show focuses on photographs Struth h...

An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Lu...

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fun...

A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known h...

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-wr...

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its a...

Based on meticulous research in original sources Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was Shining a light on individuals wh...

A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universeThere is a vast class of properties, wh...

The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, bu...