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The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated them. History is replete with...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-09-07
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From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of 'natural...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-06-29
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This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his relatively short and dramatically troubled life. From antique clocks to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-06-29
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'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.'
In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-04-13
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'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.'
In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-04-13
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This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-01-13
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This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-01-12
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The advancement of a scientific discipline depends not only on the "big heroes" of a discipline, but also on a community’s ability to reflect on what has been done in the past and what should be done in the future. This volume combines perspectives on both. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2005-12-06
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The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day.The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-28
Collection :
Palgrave Histories of Literature
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Imagine a world without rubber - neither tyres for motoring or flying, nor bouncing balls for sports, neither seals for washing machines and dishwashers, nor medical gloves - no elastics.
This unique book tells the fascinating story of four thousand years of rubber -...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-07-07
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With over 150 alphabetically arranged entries about key scientists, concepts, discoveries, technological innovations, and learned institutions, the Oxford Guide to Physics and Astronomy traces the history of physics and astronomy from the Renaissance to the present. For...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-06-03
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Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-10-28
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Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-10-28
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of famine through productive agriculture. Starting with a layman's guide to the chemistry of nitrogen fixation, the book goes on to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-08-19
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When Benjamin Franklin, the 18th-century American statesman and scientist, watched the calming effect of a drop of oil on the waves and ripples of a London pond, he was observing what Pliny the Elder and generations of seafarers had done before him. Franklin, though,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-04-22
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With a never-before published paper by Lord Henry Cavendish, as well as a biography on him, this book offers a fascinating discourse on the rise of scientific attitudes and ways of knowing. A pioneering British physicist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-03-18
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Proteins are amazingly versatile molecules. They make the chemical reactions happen that form the basis for life, they transmit signals in the body, they identify and kill foreign invaders, they form the engines that make us move, they record visual images. All of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2003-11-27
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Galileo's trial by the Inquisition is one of the most dramatic incidents in the history of science and religion. Today, we tend to see this event in black and white--Galileo all white, the Church all black. Galileo in Rome presents a much more nuanced account of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-09-25
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Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2003-06-26
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When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-04-17
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