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26 produkter
Timelines of Science
From Fossils to Quantum Physics
Inbunden, 2022
243 kr
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Explore spectacular visual timelines that tell the story of science, from fossils to quantum physics, and discover exactly how science has changed the world - one discovery at a time.Timelines of Science takes you on an astonishing journey through history, showing how dedication, disasters, and …
Erasmus Darwin
Sex, Science, and Serendipity
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems explaining his theories about sex and …
Science
A Four Thousand Year History
E-bok, 2010
135 kr
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Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science''s past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she …
Lab of One's Own
Science and Suffrage in the First World War
E-bok, 2018
114 kr
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2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One''s Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook endeavours normally reserved for …
Lab of One's Own
Science and Suffrage in the First World War
E-bok, 2017
114 kr
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2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One''s Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook endeavours normally reserved for …
Life after Gravity
Isaac Newton's London Career
E-bok, 2021
265 kr
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The story of Isaac Newton''s decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London''s Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in …
Life after Gravity
Isaac Newton's London Career
E-bok, 2021
265 kr
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The story of Isaac Newton''s decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London''s Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in …
Erasmus Darwin
Sex, Science, and Serendipity
E-bok, 2020
155 kr
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Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems explaining his theories about sex and …
Erasmus Darwin
Sex, Science, and Serendipity
E-bok, 2020
155 kr
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Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems explaining his theories about sex and …
A Lab of One's Own
Science and Suffrage in the First World War
Inbunden, 2018
324 kr
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Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists, such as Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves with …
A Lab of One's Own
Science and Suffrage in the First World War
Häftad, 2019
238 kr
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2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook endeavours normally reserved for …
Life after Gravity
Isaac Newton's London Career
Inbunden, 2021
377 kr
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The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his …
Science
A Four Thousand Year History
Häftad, 2010
197 kr
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Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she …
Newton
The Making of Genius
Inbunden, 2002
2364 kr
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Isaac Newton has become an intellectual avatar for our modern age, the man who, as even children know, was inspired to codify nature's laws by watching an apple fall from a tree. Yet Newton devoted much of his energy to deciphering the mysteries of alchemy, theology, and ancient chronology. How did …
Newton
The Making of Genius
Häftad, 2004
639 kr
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Isaac Newton has become an intellectual avatar for our modern age, the man who, as even children know, was inspired to codify nature's laws by watching an apple fall from a tree. Yet Newton devoted much of his energy to deciphering the mysteries of alchemy, theology, and ancient chronology. How did …
Timelines of Science
From Fossils to Quantum Physics
E-bok, 2022
125 kr
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How science changed the world one discovery at a time. Timelines of Science takes you on an astonishing journey back through the ages, showing how dedication, disasters, and eureka moments have brought us antibiotics, electricity, space exploration, and so much more.Includes fascinating facts, …
Memory
Av Darwin College, Patricia Fara m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
373 kr
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This engaging volume for the general reader explores how individuals and societies remember, forget and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory, with leading …
The Changing World
Av Patricia Fara, Peter Gathercole m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
373 kr
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This book was originally published in 1996. At the time of publication, a number of unexpected and far-reaching events had transformed the world. In rapid succession the disintegration of the Communist bloc reconfigured international relationships, while the ending of apartheid symbolised human …
Memory
Av Darwin College, Patricia Fara m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
732 kr
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This engaging volume for the general reader explores how individuals and societies remember, forget and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory, with leading …
Sympathetic Attractions
Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England
Häftad, 2014
1298 kr
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In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of …
Sympathetic Attractions
Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2016
3007 kr
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In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of …
Sympathetic Attractions
Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England
E-bok, 2014
949 kr
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In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of …
Pandora's Breeches
Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from …
Newton
The Making of Genius
E-bok, 2011
138 kr
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Isaac Newton is now universally celebrated as a genius of science, renowned for his innovatory work on gravity and optics. Yet Newton did not always enjoy such legendary status. His posthumous reputation has constantly changed and is riddled with contradictions.NEWTON investigates the different …
Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon Science)
The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
Häftad, 2017
113 kr
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When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. Was the pursuit of scientific …
