History of Science

Why is science so powerful? Why did it take so longtwo thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematicsfor the human race to star...

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, th...

We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness,...

As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model s...

Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara s...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific ...

The story of the most significant biological breakthrough of the century - the discovery of the structure of DNA.'It is a strange model and embodie...

University collections have unquestionably played a central role in the production of knowledge. They are valuable resources for studying the const...

In Why Its Not All Rocket Science , Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the n...

This book covers the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomers and the equip...

This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of botanical knowledge in China from ancient times to the end of the seventeenth centu...

An acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story of a lost project to unlock humanitys common denominator that prefigured the emergenc...

What evolutionary process could have resulted in the unique and amazing human brain? New research by neuroscientists, paleontologists, and others r...

According to Egyptian mythology, when the god Re cried, his tears turned into bees upon touching the ground. Beyond the realm of myth, the honey be...

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light. Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises ...

Approximately 99% of all life that has ever existed is extinct. Fortunately, these long dead species have left traces of their lives and interactio...

Approximately 99% of all life that has ever existed is extinct. Fortunately, these long dead species have left traces of their lives and interactio...

What is the correct way to see color in a modern, scientific society? And who decides? In The Republic of Color, Michael Rossi delves deep into the...

Known as the father of modern electricity, Nikola Tesla's work transformed the world. The scientist and engineer was devoted to discovery, register...

In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities a...

'A superbly written, riveting book.'MARTIN REES, Astronomer Royal'I am overcome with admiration for its range and profundity. An amazing achievemen...

In 1905, eight men from the California Academy of Sciences set sail from San Francisco for a scientific collection expedition in the Galapagos Isla...

After Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, home to Africa's first nuclear programme after i...

Historical biogeography-the study of the history of species through both time and place-first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amoun...

Hugely readable and entertaining JIM AL-KHALILI An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this disciplines breadth, largel...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all...

For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio''''s flagship programmes. It takes listeners to parts of...

Something has gone terribly wrong. We face a spiritual crisis, but the extremes of religious fundamentalism on one hand, and scientific atheism on ...

Believers is a scientists answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophersa firm rebuke of the Four Horsemen: Richard Da...

Scientifica Historica is an illustrated, accessible review of those books that marked the development of science from ancient civilizations to the ...