History Of Science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences.

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This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit. Wahr, falsch, plausibel? Die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Medienutopien
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Early Man and the Ocean by Thor HeyerdahlPreparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin FrankCook  by Nicholas ThomasExploring the Deep by Michael WelhamAdventures in Ocean Exploration  by Robert D. Ballard
Ocean Exploration
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As soon as the edifice of the knowledge of the ancients had been shaken in the minds of the most inquisitive, questions upon questions arose which now demanded technology, including -- crucially -- the invention of the telescope and the microscope, enabling a generation of scholars to see clearly things which had been absolutely invisible to their forefathers. It was a thrilling, and dangerous, time to be alive.
Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Galileo Galilei
La falsità del sistema Copernicano non deve essere in conto alcuno messa in dubbio, e massime da noi Cattolici, havendo la inregragabile autorità delle Scritture Sacre, interpretate da I maestri sommi in teologia, il concorde assenso de’ quali ci rende certi della stabilità della terra, posta nel centro, e della mobilità del sole intorno ad essa. Le congetture poi per le quali il Copernico et altri suoi seguaci hanno profferito il contrario si levono tutte con quell saldissimo argumento preso da ...more
Galileo Galilei, Le opere di Galileo Galilei 1897 [Hardcover]

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