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The Riddle of the Rosetta
A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer …
Einstein Was Right
An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational wavesIn 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the …
The Zodiac of Paris
The Dendera zodiac--an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets--was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in …
The Path Not Taken
In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that-contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts-French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model but …
Wrong for the Right Reasons
The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is …
Newton and the Origin of Civilization
Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book …
Einstein Was Right
An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational wavesIn 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves-ripples in the …
Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to …
Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy
Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and more details of his life and intellectual context have come to …
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to …
A Master of Science History
New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.
Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and early 20th century Germany and Britain
The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first …