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The Oxford History of Science (Paperback)
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The Oxford History of Science (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 290
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Histories you can trust. The first part of the book tells the story
of science in both East and West from antiquity to the
Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient
China; from the exchanges between Islamic and Christian scholars in
the Middle Ages to the Chinese invention of gunpowder, paper, and
the printing press; from the Scientific Revolution of sixteenth and
seventeenth century Europe to the intellectual ferment of the
eighteenth century. The chapters that follow focus on the
increasingly specialized story of science since end of the
eighteenth century, covering experimental science in the laboratory
from Michael Faraday to CERN; the exploration of nature, from
intrepid Victorian explorers to twentieth century primatologists;
the mapping of the universe, from the discovery of Uranus to Big
Bang theory; the impact of evolutionary ideas, from Lamarck,
Darwin, and Wallace to DNA; and the story of theoretical physics,
from James Clark Maxwell to Quantum Theory and beyond. A concluding
chapter reflects on how scientists have communicated their work to
a wider public, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the internet
in the early twenty-first century.
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