History of Science - Page 18

Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his su...

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Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics

Why are candle flames yellow? Why does ultraviolet light supposedly kill vampires? What about the mo...

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Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

One of the pillars of modern science, statistical mechanics, owes much to one man, the Austrian phys...

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Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe

‘The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years’ The SpectatorLife is Simple tells th...

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Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life

In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may...

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Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain

John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history...

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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the cont...

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The Origins of Modern Science: From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution

The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquit...

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The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation

Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of c...

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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s war on vaccines

A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century. The news breaks first as...

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On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like...

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A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

A comprehensive history of data visualization—its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think ab...

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Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection

The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and wh...

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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all ti...

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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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