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This series delves into the captivating realm of science, exploring how iconic figures and pivotal moments have shaped its trajectory. It examines groundbreaking discoveries, brilliant minds, and their indelible impact on our understanding of the universe. Each installment uncovers fresh perspectives on scientific advancement and its cultural significance. This is an enlightening journey for the intellectually curious.

Eureka!
Atom
Knowledge Is Power
Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century
Science and Islam (Arabic - Al Ilm Wal Islam)
The Comet Sweeper

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  • The Comet Sweeper

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
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    Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific and popular fame. She was awarded a salary by George III in 1787 -- the first woman in Britain to make her living from science. But, as a woman in a male-dominated world, Herschel's great success was achieved despite constant frustration of her ambitions. Drawing on original sources -- including Herschel's diaries and her fiery letters -- Claire Brock tells the story of a woman determined to win independence and satisfy her astronomical ambition.

    The Comet Sweeper

  • Atom

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
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    How 200 years of classical physics was turned on its head.

    Atom

  • Eureka!

    • 192 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
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    "Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology -- science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were among its stars. 'Eureka!' shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, these early thinkers rejected myths and capricious gods and, in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, effectively discovered nature. Their development of a rational 'scientific' attitude to the natural world is one of the true wonders of human thought." -- from the rear cover.

    Eureka!

  • Written in Stone

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    Darwin’s theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of ‘transitional fossils’ was hotly debated; some palaeontologists wondered if these ‘missing links’ had been so quick that no trace of them was left. However, during the past three decades fossils of walking whales from Pakistan, feathered dinosaurs from China, fish with feet from the Arctic Circle, ape-like humans from Africa, and many more bizarre creatures that fill in crucial gaps in our understanding of evolution have all been unearthed. The first account of the hunt for evolution’s ‘missing links’, Written in Stone shows how these discoveries have revolutionised palaeontology, and explores what its findings might mean for our place on earth.

    Written in Stone

  • Sex, Botany and Empire

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    "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 trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science? In Sweden and Britain, both imperial powers, Banks and Carl Linneaus ruled over their own small scientific empires, promoting botanical exploration to justify the exploitation of territories, peoples and natural resources. Regarding native peoples with disdain, these two scientific emperors portrayed the Arctic North and the Pacific Ocean as uncorrupted Edens, free from the shackles of Western sexual mores. Patricia Fara reveals the existence, barely concealed under Banks' and Linnaeus' camouflage of noble Enlightenment, of the altogether more seedy drives to conquer, subdue and deflower in the name of the British Imperial state." -- Provided by publisher.

    Sex, Botany and Empire

  • Knowledge is Power

    • 192 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
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    John Henry gives a dramatic account of the background to Bacon's innovations and the sometimes unconventional sources for his ideas.

    Knowledge is Power

  • Science and Islam

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
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    Between the 8th and 15th centuries, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy to new heights. This book takes the reader through the Islamic empires of the middle ages.

    Science and Islam