History of Science

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world''A sparkling bo...

'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide'Observer'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of ...

A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which w...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK''Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise'' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon author of ''L...

''A fascinating and challenging story'' New York Review of Books ''This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important sc...

The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.'An excellen...

What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prev...

For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons wi...

'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen FryIn 2015 #thedress captured the worlds imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and ...

This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has beco...

Quantum physics is at the heart of modern science and this provides an easily accessible introduction to the complex subject.

Why do we eat? Is it instinct, or some other impetus? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread in our cult...

A book that finally demystifies Newtons experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newtons alchemical papers surfaced at a Sothebys auction in 1936, the quan...

Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences...

Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is ...

Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant w...

The history of science is a story of human discovery--intertwined with religion, philosophy, economics and technology. The fourth in a series, t...

In a scholarly career spanning five decades, Rhoda Rappaport published perceptive analyses of science in the culture of early Modern Europe, France...

From the ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, and from Galileo to Hawking's research into black holes, The Story of Astronomy...

Science has a reputation as the most logical and rational of human pastimes but this has not always been the case. From the inventor Nikola Tesla,...

The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Ag...

The telephone lay in pieces on George Cowan's office desk in the basement of Princeton's physics building. It was his first day as a graduate stude...

During bacteriology's Golden Age (roughly 1870-1890) European physicians focused on the role of bacteria as causal agents of disease. Advances in m...

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, G...

The periodic table of elements is among the most recognizable image in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental ...

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest d...

In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It wa...

This textbook on the nature of space and time explains the new theory of Space Dynamics, which describes the dynamics of gravity as the evolution o...

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of...

In recent years philosophers of science have urged that many scientific theories are extremely useful and successful despite being internally incon...

We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, by the media, by popular culture--of the looming threat of mass extinction. W...

Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor co...

For thousands of years, we've found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderful...

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of spacethe everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we moveunderwent critical transformat...

Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air ...

What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to answer this question by approaching the field of liter...

This is a rare book on a rare topic: it is about 'action' and the Principle of Least Action. A surprisingly well-kept secret, these ideas are at th...