History of Science - Page 14

Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Nothing captivates the human imagination like the vast unknowns of space. Ancient petroglyphs presen...

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Gregor Mendel: His Life and Legacy

Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, is renowned as one of the world’s most ingenious and influen...

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Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery

How do scientists design the medicine we use to improve our lives? It turns out that many are happy...

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

By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological d...

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The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction

This lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in...

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Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)

The riveting story of the strange science of the 'Normal', and the origins of an anxiety-ridden mode...

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Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia

Biophilia—the love of life—encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms,...

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Natural Philosophy: On Retrieving a Lost Disciplinary Imaginary

Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern worldThis book argues for t...

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The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World

With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt,...

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Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science

Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the...

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A New History of Greek Mathematics

The ancient Greeks played a fundamental role in the history of mathematics and their ideas were reus...

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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the los...

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Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power

In this insightful and revelatory new book, the author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning intern...

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Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world’s most common causes of d...

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Spare Parts: An Unexpected History of Transplants

'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times'A fascinating book' Daily MailWe think of transplant...

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