Naturvetenskapens historia

In The Moon David Whitehouse explains how our nearest celestial neighbor was created (and what moonrocks tell us of its earth-shattering origins), and how its existence may have …

A landmark work of nineteenth-century developmental and evolutionary biology that takes the Darwinian struggle for existence into the organism itself.Though he is remembered …

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - …

In this volume, the author discusses the fundamental Greek contributions to science, drawing on the rich literary and archaeological sources for the period after Aristotle. …

The forgotten story of a decades-long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at …

A FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA STRONG WORDS TOP 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil'If you read …

Today it’s routine to take photos from an aeroplane window, use a camera under the sea or gaze at an X-ray. But the innovations more than a century ago that made such things …

The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the …

Stjärnor och äpplen som faller (2003) är en bok om fysiken och universum. Ulf Danielsson berättar levande och åskådligt om hur världen hänger ihop – och om hur man genom tiderna …