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ISBN: 9780199931613 - Seduced by Logic Seduced by Logic
Robyn Arianrhod

ISBN10: 0199931615  ISBN13: 9780199931613
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 22 Nov 2012
This story of two remarkable women, Emilie du Chatelet and Mary Somerville, whose lives were drawn together by their irresistible desire for mathematical knowledge, reveals the intimate links between the Newtonian revolution and the origins of... More

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ISBN: 9781846684067 - The Secret Anarchy of Science The Secret Anarchy of Science
Michael Brooks

ISBN10: 1846684064  ISBN13: 9781846684067
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2012
For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. This exploration of some of the greatest breakthroughs in science reveals the extreme lengths some scientists go to in order to make their theories public. More

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ISBN: 9781848311503 - God's Philosophers Bestseller God's Philosophers
James Hannam

ISBN10: 1848311508  ISBN13: 9781848311503
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 May 2010
The adjective 'medieval' is a synonym for superstition and ignorance. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. This title traces the neglected roots of modern science in... More

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ISBN: 9780300136593 - A Little History of Science Bestseller A Little History of Science
William F Bynum

ISBN10: 0300136595  ISBN13: 9780300136593
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Sep 2012
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. This book tells a great adventure story: the history of science. It takes readers to the stars through the... More

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ISBN: 9780199582662 - Erasmus Darwin Bestseller Erasmus Darwin
Patricia Fara

ISBN10: 0199582661  ISBN13: 9780199582662
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Sep 2012
A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and other scientific endeavours) was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his... More

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ISBN: 9780199668403 - Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist
Ian Stewart Glass

ISBN10: 019966840X  ISBN13: 9780199668403
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 01
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Dec 2012
This is the first comprehensive biography of one of the greatest and most careful observational astronomers of all time. He mapped the southern sky and named many of the constellations. In addition, he contributed to geodesy, navigation... More

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ISBN: 9780500251911 - The Scientists The Scientists
Andrew Robinson

ISBN10: 0500251916  ISBN13: 9780500251911
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 Sep 2012
Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. This title features articles that offer an account of the lives and... More

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ISBN: 9781580464550 - Shifting Boundaries of Public Health Shifting Boundaries of Public Health
Susan Gross Solomon, Lion Murard, Patrick Zylberman

ISBN10: 1580464556  ISBN13: 9781580464550
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd University of Rochester Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Apr 2013
New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe. European public health was a playing field for deeply contradictory impulses throughout the twentieth century. In the 1920s, international agencies were established with... More

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ISBN: 9780141038360 - Pathfinders Bestseller Pathfinders
Jim Al-Khalili

ISBN10: 0141038365  ISBN13: 9780141038360
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jan 2012
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a... More

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ISBN: 9781408831014 - Darwin's Ghosts Bestseller Darwin's Ghosts
Rebecca Stott

ISBN10: 1408831015  ISBN13: 9781408831014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
An electrifying account of the extraordinary untold history behind Darwin's theory of evolution Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations... More