History of Science

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now...

From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act. Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda dav...

An international team of biologists, philosophers, and historians of science explores the critically important process of replication in biological...

Carbon is everywhere: in the paper of this book and the blood of our bodies. Its with us from beginning to end, present in our baby clothes and cof...

Religion can be both inspiring and distressing. And many critiques of it are simultaneously compelling and dubious. Shay examines atheist arguments...

The Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and po...

Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding soc...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the ...

John Aubrey (162697) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in ...

From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science pl...

The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europes relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues, it was the period in ...

Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance. ...

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was...

An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. Polyphony-the interweaving of simultaneous sounds-is a c...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arbor...

What would life be like without cars, television, the Internet and computers, or the omnipresent smartphone? Setting aside the question of whether ...

Newtons heretical writings on theology, spirituality, alchemy, and prophecy, uncovered and analyzed. Isaac Newton (1643-1727) is still regarded by ...

From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, cur...

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other ...

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard F...