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ISBN: 9780141015705 - Fellowship Fellowship
Gribbin, John

ISBN10: 9780141902944  ISBN13: 9780141902944
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of... More

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ISBN: 9780471404217 - Marking Time Marking Time
Steel, Duncan

ISBN10: 9780471437178  ISBN13: 9780471437178
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Wiley
Format: Electronic Book
"e;If you lie awake worrying about the overnight transition from December 31, 1 b.c., to January 1, a.d. 1 (there is no year zero), then you will enjoy Duncan Steel's Marking Time."e;--American Scientist"e;No book could serve as a... More

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ISBN: 9780465031443 - Abacus and the Cross Abacus and the Cross
Brown, Nancy Marie

ISBN10: 9780465022953  ISBN13: 9780465022953
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: Electronic Book
The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Agesin fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The... More

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ISBN: 9780199585793 - From Melancholia to Prozac A history of depression From Melancholia to Prozac A history of depression
Lawlor, Clark

ISBN10: 9780191633850  ISBN13: 9780191633850
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Exactly what is depression? Do we under- or over-diagnose it? Do treatments on offer really work? Clark Lawlor sheds light on the current debates by looking back at how depression has been described, understood, and dealt with in other cultures... More

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ISBN: 9780471414315 - It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist
Malone, John

ISBN10: 9780471449324  ISBN13: 9780471449324
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Wiley
Format: Electronic Book
Did you know. . .. . . that the woman who discovered the largest and most complete T. rex fossil on record was a high-school dropout who became one of the world's greatest fossil hunters? . . . that the great British scientist Michael Faraday was... More

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ISBN: 9780195306965 - Modern Alchemy Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory Modern Alchemy Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory
MARK, MORRISSON

ISBN10: 9780198041924  ISBN13: 9780198041924
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Mark Morrisson, in Modern Alchemy, challenges the widespread dismissal of alchemy as a largely insignificant historical footnote to science. More

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ISBN: 9780415220637 - Renaissance Computer Renaissance Computer
Sawday, Jonathan; Rhodes, Neil

ISBN10: 9780203463307  ISBN13: 9780203463307
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge. More

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ISBN: 9780195189513 - Inventing Modern Inventing Modern
Lienhard, John H

ISBN10: 9780199882885  ISBN13: 9780199882885
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780752458007 - Shocking Bodies Shocking Bodies
Morus, Iwan Rhys

ISBN10: 9780752463810  ISBN13: 9780752463810
Publisher: The History Press
Format: Electronic Book
For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and understanding themselves. Luigi Galvani's discovery of 'animal electricity' at the end of the... More

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ISBN: 9780415280327 - Milestones in Systematics Milestones in Systematics
Williams, David M ; Forey, Peter L

ISBN10: 9780203643037  ISBN13: 9780203643037
Publisher: Taylor and Francis CRC Press
Format: Electronic Book
Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics reviews many of the major issues in systematic theory and practice that have driven the working methods of systematics... More