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  • A History of Science in Society, Volume I

    From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, Third Edition

    by Andrew Ede, Lesley B. Cormack ...
    A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume I covers the origins of natural philosophy in the ancient world to the Scientific Revolution.New topics ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Science in Society

    From Philosophy to Utility, Fourth Edition

    by Andrew Ede, Lesley B. Cormack ...
    In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook brings the narrative right up to the present day by incorporating the COVID-19 pandemic. The edition also adds content on Indigenous and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • A History of Science in Society, Volume I

    From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, Fourth Edition

    by Andrew Ede, Lesley B. Cormack ...
    In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume I covers the origins of natural philosophy in the ancient world to the scientific revolution.The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook adds content on non-Western science ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Science in Society, Volume II

    From the Scientific Revolution to the Present, Fourth Edition

    by Andrew Ede, Lesley B. Cormack ...
    In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume II covers the period from the scientific revolution to the present day.The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook brings the narrative right up into the twenty-first century ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Science in Society, Volume II

    From the Scientific Revolution to the Present, Third Edition

    by Andrew Ede, Lesley B. Cormack ...
    A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume II covers from the Scientific Revolution until the present day.New topics in this edition include ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Lesley B. Cormack, Steven A. Walton, John A. Schuster ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking). These are not in opposition, however. Theory and practice are end points on a continuum, with some participants interested only in the practical, others only in the ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • A History of Science in Society

    From Philosophy to Utility, Second Edition

    by Lesley Cormack, Andrew Ede ...
    A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.In this edition, the authors examine the robust intellectual exchange between ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • A History of Science in Society

    From Philosophy to Utility, Third Edition

    by Lesley Cormack, Andrew Ede ...
    A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.New topics in this edition include astronomy and mathematics in ancient Mayan society, science and technology ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • To Explain the World

    The Discovery of Modern Science

    by Steven Weinberg ...
    The Nobel Prize–winner shares "a masterful journey through humankind's scientific coming-of-age" from the Greeks to modern times (Brian Greene).In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries of human striving to unravel the mysteries of the world. This sweeping saga ranges from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Science

    A Four Thousand Year History

    by Patricia Fara ...
    Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Lawrence M. Principe ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Science

    100 Scientists Who Changed the World

    by Jon Balchin ...
    "If I saw further than others," said Sir Isaac Newton, "it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."Science introduces one hundred of these giants-the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, succeeded in extending the range of human knowledge through the profound nature of their achievements.Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus