History of Science

Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and She...

The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, dese...

Provides An Overview Of Western Science From The Renaissance To The Present. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong -- I Believe -- Thomas Aquinas Versus Neil Arms...

Immersed In Radical Feminist Politics, Scientific Ingenuity, Establishment Opposition, And, Ultimately, A Sea Change In Social Attitudes, This Is The Fascin...

Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-...

Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond. Humans have been...

By G. Gamow; Illustrated By The Author And John Hookman. Includes Music.Categories: Science & Math PhysicsGravity

covering Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, The Various Branches Of Biology, And Geology, This Book Is The Perfect Introduction To The History Of Science. A C...

The Zeroth Law : The Concept Of Temperature -- The First Law : The Conservation Of Energy -- The Second Law : The Increase In Entropy -- Free Energy : The A...