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Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon Science)
When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose …
Neuroethics
Explores the ethical, legal, and societal issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology, and other new developments in neuroscience.Neuroscience increasingly allows us to …
Fighting the Forces
For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the …
An Entertainment for Angels
Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences to marvel at sparkling …
Pandora's Breeches
'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls …
Scientists Anonymous
Profiles such renowned female scientists as Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, and Rosalind Franklin, along with stories of lesser-known women in science whose discoveries have …
The Changing World
Recent unexpected and far-reaching events have transformed our world. In rapid succession the disintegration of the Communist bloc reconfigured international relationships, while …
Timelines of Science: From Fossils to Quantum Physics
Explore spectacular visual timelines that tell the story of science, from fossils to quantum physics, and discover exactly how science has changed the world - one discovery at a …
Sympathetic Attractions
In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and …
Erasmus Darwin
Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar …
Entertainment for Angels (Icon Science)
Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences to marvel at sparkling …