History of Science - Page 21

How Innovation Works

Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation,...

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Superior: The Return of Race Science

Financial Times Book of the YearTelegraph Top 50 Books of the YearGuardian Book of the YearNew State...

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Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century

The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the mo...

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The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story

How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' alwa...

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Quantum Profiles

What was Albert Einstein like as a person? How did J. Robert Oppenheimer's religious background impa...

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Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms

Algorithms are the hidden methods that computers apply to process information and make decisions. No...

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Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename...

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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future

‘[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and f...

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Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics

Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a se...

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Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

One of Science News' Favorite Science Books of 2018Winner of the Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron: The In...

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Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962

At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy’s major public health problem. It was the...

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The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution

In this masterful account, a historian of science surveys the molecular biology revolution, its orig...

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Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections

At the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for...

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The Alchemy of Disease: How Chemicals and Toxins Cause Cancer and Other Illnesses

Since the dawn of the industrial age, we have unleashed a bewildering number of potentially harmful...

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The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time

A tour of clocks throughout the centuries—from the sandglass to the telomere—to reveal the physical,...