History of Science

Après qu'al-Khwarizmi eut rédigé son livre fondateur de l'algèbre au début du IXe siècle, les recherches algébriques se sont rapidement développées...

Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for b...

This book is a brief view of what has come to be over a period of 13.7 billion years; one not simply, collectively, and consequentially previously ...

Drawing from literary studies, philosophy, and the history of science, in this interdisciplinary study Hanna Roman argues that the language of Buff...

A searing exposÉ of the misuses and misrepresentations of science from the time of Galileo continuing through to the present day, this new edition ...

Did you know that the machine used to drill tunnels for the first underground railway in England was invented by a South African, or that the first...

Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful. -NatureA magnificent (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious...

Evolution helps us understand our own humble place in the rich tapestry of life. But what do we know about the theory of evolution itself? Based on...

The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked...

A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.  This book contains the...

The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany--including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg--and how they accommodated themselv...

In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment...

A vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science. What difference does...

A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling.Bill BrysonA revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific break...

From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the wor...

Space exploration has fascinated us since the launch of the first primitive rockets more than 3,000 years ago, and it continues to fascinate us tod...

Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But ver...

Space exploration has fascinated us since the launch of the first primitive rockets more than 3,000 years ago, and it continues to fascinate us tod...

How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that were all made fro...

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means parts for which you should be ashamed . Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles....

The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politicsAlexander von Humboldt (17691859) wa...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK An original and revelatory journey through the three-billion-year history of slime - a substance upon which we and ...