The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, Paperback - David Wootton

Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...

The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the...

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In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. In this title, t...

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Scie...

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Description"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical cl...

Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): David SchneiderPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 39Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul le...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Philip Ashley FanningNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 18Cover type...

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DescriptionAlchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...

Reducere. Discover the history of the American Revolution--an introduction for kids ages 6 to 9On April 19, 1775, the American Minutemen clashed with British...

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Reducere. "As soon as she heard me enter, Elvia awoke from a light sleep that had overcome her as she anxiously waited: 'How did it go?' Excited, I exclaimed...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): David WengrowNumber of pages: 720Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 36Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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Reducere. Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind the French Revolution, which brought an end to an absolute monarchy that had ruled fo...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific ...

Reducere. From an award-winning historian, a "vivid" (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe French Revolution's pri...

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This book tells the story of how the "servile arts" turned into the "mechanical arts, " which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical appara...

A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. Sweeping in its scope and c...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Anthony Robert (Founder of Rees Consulting AB, Stockholm, Sweden) ReesNumber of pages: 514P...

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About the AuthorProfessor David Ingram, Formerly Regius Keeper, the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, RHS Professor of Horticulture and Master, St C...