History of Science - Page 4

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul K...

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (With New and Updated Material)

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discover...

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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein

A nuanced portrait of Albert Einstein, a world citizen pivotally engaged in politics, humanitarianis...

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Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and sh...

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Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe

Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared l...

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Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies

Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to th...

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic,...

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Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science

The story of the circle of scientists, poets and dissidents who discovered laughing gas—and forever...

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The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry

The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centur...

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Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution

The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actua...

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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, examining the role that co...

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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions

An astrophysicist’s reflection on how shifts in perspective have transformed our understanding of th...

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Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science

Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career...

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Abortion: A History

From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion. An ancient entertainer...

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Standards (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)

An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digita...

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