History of Science - Page 9

Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control

The definitive account of the Chinese government's response to the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuha...

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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF...

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Our Moon: A Human History

‘Passionate and absorbing’SUNDAY TIMES‘I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after...

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When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted te...

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Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics

Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people...

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Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

A revelatory new account of the magus—the learned magician—and his place in the intellectual, so...

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A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity

How should we talk about “the law” in a period so remote from our own and covering such a huge span...

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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future

'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism … Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as...

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The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom

Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy see...

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The Birth of Physics

The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of t...

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The Future of Us: The Science of What We'll Eat, Where We'll Live, and Who We'll Be

A fascinating look at the cutting-edge science and technologies that are on the cusp of changing eve...

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Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America’s Secret Thalidomide Scandal

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story...

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Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian: The Strange History of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program

This is the story of how the Smithsonian Institute became intertwined in a secret biological warfare...

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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science

Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite...

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Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting th...