History of Science

The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century

A history of the relationship between art and geometry in the early modern period. In The Polyhedri...

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Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion

On May 11, 1997, millions worldwide heard news of a stunning victory, as a machine defeated the defe...

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Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that...

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Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector

Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he...

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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

Sparkling history…with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking'...

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Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919

Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of rememberin...

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Horizons: A Global History of Science

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative.We are told...

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Insulin - The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold

Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. One hundred ye...

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Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible

The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19...

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Saved from the Cellar: Gerhard Gentzen’s Shorthand Notes on Logic and Foundations of Mathematics

Gerhard Gentzen is best known for his development of the proof systems of natural deduction and sequ...

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Mathematics and Its History: A Concise Edition

This textbook provides a unified and concise exploration of undergraduate mathematics by approaching...

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Magic Squares: Their History and Construction from Ancient Times to AD 1600

The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Midd...

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Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century: From PNT to FLT

The last one hundred years have seen many important achievements in the classical part of number the...

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Story of Algebraic Numbers in the First Half of the 20th Century: From Hilbert to Tate

The book is aimed at people working in number theory or at least interested in this part of mathem...

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€63.60

Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our i...

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€32.30