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Bedeviled(2022) CANALES, JIMENAHow scientists conjure demons to unlock the secrets of the universeScience may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kindVezava: Mehka35,55 € -
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Voyage of Thought(2017) WINTROUB, MICHAEL (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)Wintroub presents a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. He explores the shifting aVezava: Trda77,00 € -
Stalin and the Scientists(2017) INGS, SIMONLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Our Changing Views of Photons(2020) SHORE, BRUCE W. (RETIRED, RETIRED)Definitions, and views, of photons have undergone a remarkable change during the last century, continuing today with advances in nanotechnology and lasers. 'Our Changing Views of Photons - A Tutorial Memoir' describes the changing views of the physics comVezava: Trda131,25 € -
You Don't Want to Know(2021) FELTON, JAMESJames Felton is back with his unique brand of wit and wisdom - this time to guide you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you wish you could forget.Vezava: Trda18,21 € -
On the Origin of Evolution(2021) GRIBBIN, JOHN,GRIBBIN, MARYA Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of yVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Story of Western Science(2015) BAUER, SUSAN WISEA guide to the best science writing, which tells the centuries-long story of our striving to understand the world.Vezava: Trda39,90 € -
Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 2, The Opticks (1704) and Related Papers ca.1688–1717(2021) NEWTON, ISAACShapiro documents, through its three principal published editions, the evolution of Newton's Opticks - the most influential optical and experimental work of the eighteenth century - together with related material, including the queries. It is an essentialVezava: Trda299,74 € -
Real World of Victorian Steampunk(2019) SIMON, WEBB,Explores the fantastic and little-known inventions which underpin the fanciful world of steampunk.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sonnet to Science(2020) ILLINGWORTH, SAMIn A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by well-known scientists, contextualising it with their work and research, in an effort to better understand how poetry might today be used as aVezava: Mehka26,72 € -
Figuring(2020) POPOVA, MARIAA history of women who have changed our understanding of the universe, from the creator of Brain PickingsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Dutch Light(2020) ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, HUGHHugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.23,82 €
