History of science books

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World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937-1942

World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology,...

Author: Robert Kargon ,  Karen Fiss
ISBN: 9780822968023
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Most of the existing literature about world's fairs tends to focus either on one particular event, or only on fairs...  Read More >>

Shadows of Uranus: The Discovery of a Hidden Moon

Shadows of Uranus: The Discovery of a Hidden Moon

Author: Luda J Paul
ISBN: 9798262223855
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Shadows of Uranus What if the universe still holds secrets that even our most powerful spacecraft once overlooked?...  Read More >>

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth...

Author: Jonas Enander
ISBN: 9781805464679
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A fascinating and enlightening guide to the enduring mystery and majesty of black holes.  Read More >>

The Science Museum Chemistry 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Chemistry’s Key Concepts

The Science Museum Chemistry 100 Ideas in 100 Words:...

Author: DK
ISBN: 9780241720301
Format: Hardback
$27.99

Get to grips with the essential topics in Chemistry today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100...  Read More >>

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth...

Author: Jonas Enander
ISBN: 9781805464662
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A fascinating and enlightening guide to the enduring mystery and majesty of black holes.  Read More >>

A Tale of Seven Elements: Plus Another 40 or So Others

A Tale of Seven Elements: Plus Another 40 or So Others...

Author: Eric R. Scerri (Lecturer in Chemistry and Philosophy of Science, Lecturer in Chemistry and Philosophy of Science, UCLA)
ISBN: 9780197785324
Format: Paperback
$42.95

In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley transformed our understanding of the elements by organizing them by atomic...  Read More >>

Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments,...

Author: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9780300280876
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture...  Read More >>

A Philosophical History of Western Medicine

A Philosophical History of Western Medicine

Author: Michael Boylan
ISBN: 9783031978050
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book provides an historical and philosophical overview of Western medicine along with commentary about how...  Read More >>

Privatizing Space: An Illustrated History of The Quest to Affordable and Profitable Spaceflight

Privatizing Space: An Illustrated History of The Quest...

Author: Giuseppe De Chiara ,  Davide Sivolella
ISBN: 9783031894138
Format: Hardback
$77.60

This book recognizes NASA's COTS program as a pivot point in the history of the space agency and worldwide space...  Read More >>

Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural

Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural

Author: Ben Machell
ISBN: 9780349146836
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The story of Britain's most famous paranormal investigator - and a journey into the unexplained  Read More >>

Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural

Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural

Author: Ben Machell
ISBN: 9780349146829
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The only book you ever need to read about the supernatural  Read More >>

Microscopic Wonders: The Science of Seeing the Invisible

Microscopic Wonders: The Science of Seeing the Invisible...

Author: Abraham Rosas-Arellano ,  Carmen Reyes Luna
ISBN: 9783031925580
Format: Hardback
$64.66

The history of the microscope is illustrated with paintings in the style of tattoos by tattoo artist Yingfayang...  Read More >>

Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth Century Britain

Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth...

Author: Professor Robert Fox (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781350239326
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first full-scale biography of the physician and man of science Thomas Garnett (1766-1802)  Read More >>

Thomas Kuhn: From Physics to Philosophy of Science

Thomas Kuhn: From Physics to Philosophy of Science

Author: Juan V. Mayoral
ISBN: 9783031865114
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Besides that, Kuhn scholars shall find this book useful for their studies on Kuhn insofar as new unpublished documents...  Read More >>

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography...

Author: Anika Burgess
ISBN: 9781324051107
Format: Hardback
$57.95

The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them  Read More >>

The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs

The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of...

Author: Hanoch Gutfreund ,  Jürgen Renn
ISBN: 9780691277448
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Machina Sapiens: How Intelligent Machines Passed the Turing Test

Machina Sapiens: How Intelligent Machines Passed the...

Author: Nello Cristianini
ISBN: 9781032949116
Format: Paperback
$48.99

Following on from “The Shortcut”, Nello Cristianini has authored another brilliant book, explaining the ideas behind...  Read More >>

Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than...

Author: Mark Vellend
ISBN: 9780691253404
Format: Hardback
$54.99

How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities,...  Read More >>

Machina Sapiens: How Intelligent Machines Passed the Turing Test

Machina Sapiens: How Intelligent Machines Passed the...

Author: Nello Cristianini
ISBN: 9781032948928
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Following on from “The Shortcut”, Nello Cristianini has authored another brilliant book, explaining the ideas behind...  Read More >>

Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science Teaching

Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science...

Author: Kostas Kampourakis (Senior Lecturer, Section of Biology, Senior Lecturer, Section of Biology, University of Geneva)
ISBN: 9780197787106
Format: Hardback
$73.95

In today's world of social media and information overload, certain science topics related to policy decisions, such...  Read More >>

The Invention of Nature

The Invention of Nature

Author: Andrea Wulf
ISBN: 9781399827164
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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