History of science books

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How Energy Considerations Have Shaped Our Fundamental Modern Theories of Physics: Theory and Key Historical Moments

How Energy Considerations Have Shaped Our Fundamental...

Author: E. B. Manoukian
ISBN: 9783031511981
Format: Hardback
$422.37

At long last, with sufficient technical details, emphasizing key historical moments, a book that develops all of...  Read More >>

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation...

Author: David Baker ,  Simon Whistler
ISBN: 9798874843786
Format: Audio
$121.41

"""An evolutionary history of sex that reveals how two billion years of genetic ancestry, from the first aquatic...  Read More >>

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation...

Author: David Baker ,  Simon Whistler
ISBN: 9798874843793
Format: Audio
$121.31

"""An evolutionary history of sex that reveals how two billion years of genetic ancestry, from the first aquatic...  Read More >>

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation...

Author: David Baker ,  Simon Whistler
ISBN: 9798874843601
Format: Audio
$121.41

"""An evolutionary history of sex that reveals how two billion years of genetic ancestry, from the first aquatic...  Read More >>

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation...

Author: David Baker ,  Simon Whistler
ISBN: 9798874843618
Format: Audio
$121.31

"""An evolutionary history of sex that reveals how two billion years of genetic ancestry, from the first aquatic...  Read More >>

Messengers from the Cosmos: An Introduction to the Physics of Cosmic Rays in Its Historical Evolution

Messengers from the Cosmos: An Introduction to the Physics...

Author: Francesco Riggi
ISBN: 9783031247644
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book provides a complete overview of the development of cosmic ray physics, with historical and educational...  Read More >>

Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age

Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular...

Author: Peter Harrison (University of Queensland)
ISBN: 9781009477222
Format: Hardback
$90.56

What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere...  Read More >>

Descartes on Mathematics, Method and Motion: On the Role of Cartesian Physics in the Scientific Revolution

Descartes on Mathematics, Method and Motion: On the...

Author: Ladislav Kvasz
ISBN: 9783031570605
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This book argues that Descartes’ physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics. Several of...  Read More >>

Planting Our World

Planting Our World

Author: Stefano Mancuso ,  Gregory Conti
ISBN: 9781635424416
Format: Paperback
$35.00

"""Originally published in Italian as La pianta del mondo in 2020 by Editori Laterza, Rome""-- t.p. verso."  Read More >>

The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)

The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)...

Author: Ptolemy ,  Professor Christián C. Carman
ISBN: 9781804177914
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Ptolemy’s The Almagest brought together the ideas of Greek Antiquity, that the sun and planets revolved around the...  Read More >>

The Republic: The Essential Philosophical Dialogue (Concise Edition)

The Republic: The Essential Philosophical Dialogue (Concise...

Author: Plato ,  Harold Tarrant
ISBN: 9781804177938
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Much of traditional Western thought began in Antiquity, flowing from the Platonic dialogues, The Republic being...  Read More >>

Poincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativity: An End to the Controversy

Poincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativity:...

Author: Jean-Marc Ginoux
ISBN: 9783031513862
Format: Hardback
$422.37

1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of...  Read More >>

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

Author: David N. Livingstone
ISBN: 9780691236704
Format: Hardback
$67.99

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity. Scientists, journalists, and politicians...  Read More >>

Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives

Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives

Author: Professor John S. Croucher ,  Professor Rosalind F. Croucher
ISBN: 9781398119581
Format: Paperback
$33.61

New paperback edition - An investigation into the lives of some of the more remarkable women in the history of scientific...  Read More >>

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking...

Author: Bernard Lightman ,  Efram Sera-Shriar
ISBN: 9780822948148
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science  Read More >>

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the...

Author: David Baron
ISBN: 9781324094692
Format: Paperback
$31.95

Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to...  Read More >>

Boranes and Beyond: History and the Man Who Created Them

Boranes and Beyond: History and the Man Who Created...

Author: M. Frederick Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781071632376
Format: Paperback
$527.97

Tracing the life of a giant in inorganic chemistry and key trends in his science, Boranes and Beyond follows Hawthorne...  Read More >>

The Soviet Space Programme

The Soviet Space Programme

Author: Ronald D. Humble
ISBN: 9781032675473
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research

Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research

Author: George E. Wukelic
ISBN: 9781032674056
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know...

Author: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9781529400472
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A thrilling account of a centuries-old rivalry - an exploration of scientific discovery and its evolution in an...  Read More >>

Verbindende Mechanismen: Disziplinenubergreifende Erforschung Biochemischer Und Biophysikalischer Vorgange Im Fruhen 20. Jahrhundert

Verbindende Mechanismen: Disziplinenubergreifende Erforschung...

Author: Caterina Schurch
ISBN: 9783515131254
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Interdisziplinare Forschung ist anspruchsvoll, aber oft der erfolgversprechendste Weg zur Losung wissenschaftlicher...  Read More >>

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of...

Author: Jeff Maynard
ISBN: 9780008532765
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Silk: A World History

Silk: A World History

Author: Aarathi Prasad
ISBN: 9798212902755
Format: Audio
$190.05

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