What Historys Greatest Science and Technology Breakthroughs Teach Us About Future TechnologyDagogo has the uncanny ability to take fascinating topics and somehow make them even more interesting.
For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research and discovery.
Part of Sterling's extremely popular Milestones series, this illustrated exploration of computer science ranges from the ancient abacus to superintelligence and social media.
Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate?
This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture.
A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modernIn this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains.
Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called honzogaku) that rivaled Western science in complexity-and then seemingly disappeared.
The first A-Z resource to catalog the achievements and legacy of more than four millennia of scientific thought in the ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East, providing a complete overview of the physical, chemical, life, medical, and social sciences of the classical world.
A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty.
