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  • Tangible Things

    Making History through Objects

    de Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, Samantha van Gerbig, Sarah Anne Carter ...
    In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past. The authors of this ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

    de Sara Schechner Genuth ...
    In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society ... Leer más

    $47.59 USD

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  • The Clockwork Universe

    Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, & the Birth of the Modern World

    de Edward Dolnick ...
    New York Times–bestselling Author: An "entertainingly written" account of the scientific revolution that emerged amid the horrors of seventeenth-century London ( Kirkus Reviews).In the late seventeenth century, chaos and disease reigned. Streets overflowed with filth and the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Sickness was divine punishment, astronomy and astrology were ... Leer más

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  • Isaac Newton

    de James Gleick ...
    Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, ... Leer más

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  • The Forbidden Universe

    The Occult Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God

    de Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince ...
    Secret societies, famous scientists, ancient Egyptian mysticism, and a fascinating addition to the god-versus-science debate: the Catholic Church. By the bestselling authors of The Templar Revelation and Mary Magdalene, The Forbidden Universe reveals how the foundations of modern science were based around a desire to destroy the church. The great pioneering scientists of the Renaissance and the ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of Science

    A New History of the Scientific Revolution

    de David Wootton ...
    This "fantastic revisionist history . . . captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in" ( Financial Times).We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. In The Invention of Science, historian David Wootton reveals why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. Spanning continents and centuries ... Leer más

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  • Kepler's Witch

    An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother

    de James A. Connor ...
    This biography of "the Protestant Galileo" and 16th century mathematician and astronomer reveals the spiritual nature of the quest of early modern science.In the style of Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter, James A. Connor's Kepler's Witch brings to life the tidal forces of Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and social upheaval. Johannes Kepler, who discovered the three basic laws of planetary motion, ... Leer más

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  • The Light Ages

    The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

    de Seb Falk ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History MagazineAn illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk."Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away ... Leer más

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  • A More Perfect Heaven

    How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

    de Dava Sobel ...
    By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the next two decades, Copernicus expanded his theory through hundreds of observations, while compiling ... Leer más

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  • Wonders in the Sky

    Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times

    de Jacques Vallee, Chris Aubeck ...
    One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena.In the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying ... Leer más

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  • Coming of Age in the Milky Way

    de Timothy Ferris ...
    An eloquent and accessible journey through our evolving notions of the cosmos from "the best science writer of his generation" ( Washington Post).From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, our perception of the universe—and out place in it—has changed drastically. This classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the ... Leer más

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  • Before Galileo

    The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

    de John Freely ...
    A physicist and historian sheds light on scientific minds, breakthroughs, and innovations that paved the way for the Scientific Revolution.Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, a conflict which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. As a consequence of this narrative frame, ... Leer más

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