From Hipparchus and Ptolemy in the ancient world, through Copernicus and Brahe in the sixteenth century, astronomers had used geometrical models to give a kinematic ...
Continue Reading →In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking’s classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than ...
Continue Reading →Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular ...
Continue Reading →Theory of Colours is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet’s views on the nature of colours and how these ...
Continue Reading →Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, “Creative Evolution”, provided an alternate explanation ...
Continue Reading →Before he became a professional architect, Christopher Wren had a highly successful career as an astronomer – he was Savilian Professor of Astronomy ...
Continue Reading →What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a 1944 science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin ...
Continue Reading →Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most ...
Continue Reading →We Have Never Been Modern is a 1991 book by Bruno Latour, originally published in French as Nous n’avons jamais été modernes : ...
Continue Reading →Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of ‘great originality and power’, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. ...
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