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Svenska pionjärer : vetenskap som förändrat världen

AvHenrik Berggren,Eva Krutmeijer

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

242 kr

Sverige har i över 300 år varit ett ledande forskningsland där mängder av stora vetenskapliga genombrott har skett. I förhållande till folkmängden har inget annat land levererat så många vetenskapliga pionjärinsatser. Vad är förklaringen till denna styrkeposition som forskningsland? Vilka är människorna bakom upptäckterna? Vetenskapsförfattaren Eva Krutmeijer och historikern Henrik Berggren utforskar i boken vad det är som har varit ovanligt gynnsamt för svensk forskning. De närmar sig denna fråga genom att lyfta fram ett stort antal betydelsefulla svenska forskare – människor som varit verkliga pionjärer inom vetenskapen. Och genom denna mångfald av hängivna upptäckare kan man skönja djupare mönster – inte minst betydelsen av starka forskningsmiljöer.

Forskningsrönen i boken spänner över drygt trehundra år och många är världskända. Boken är skriven för en bred läsekrets och vill lyfta fram betydelsen av fri forskning. Berättelser om enskilda forskare och händelser lyfts fram i sitt historiska sammanhang – men boken innehåller också exempel på betydelsefull forskning av idag. Boken har skrivits i samarbete med Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. Det framåtriktade efterordet är skrivet av akademiens tidigare ständige sekreterare, professor Hans Ellegren.

The Mysteries of the Universe: Discover the Best-Kept Secrets of Space

AvWill Gater

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

287 kr

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Apple: The First 50 Years

AvDavid Pogue

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

502 kr

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A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0

AvBill Bryson

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

198 kr

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In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them. NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' GuardianBill Bryson can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 is the result of his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from being nothing at all to what we are today. Now fully updated to reflect the many scientific discoveries in the last twenty years since this book was first published, it explains among much else:

why Pluto is no longer a planethow the number of moons in the solar system has more than doubled in 20 yearshow scientists used advances in genetics to discover previously unknown species of early humanswhy we still don't know what most of the universe is made ofhow the little Higgs boson transformed physics

This journey through time and space will inform a new generation of readers, young and old, as well as those who read this book on first publication with a new perspective based on what we know now.Written in his inimitable style, Bryson makes complex subjects fascinating and accessible to everyone with an interest in the world around them.A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 reveals the world in a whole new way.Praise for A Short History of Nearly Everything:'I doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written.' Sunday Telegraph'Bill Bryson has an unmatched gift for explaining the most difficult subjects in the clearest possible way.' Mail on Sunday'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The Times'Hugely readable and never obfuscating.' Sunday Times'A genuinely useful and readable book... A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world around them in the same way again' Daily Express'The very book I have been looking for most of my life... Bryson wears his knowledge with aplomb and a lot of very good jokes.' Daily Mail'Destined to become a modern classic of science writing' The New York Times

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Den lodande människan : havet, djupet och nyfikenheten

AvPatrik Svensson

Pocket, Svenska, 2024

99 kr

Hur lärde sig människan att hitta på havet? Var Magellan verkligen den förste världsomseglaren? Hur bidrog kaskelotvalen till upplysningen? På vilket sätt förändrade den skotske bagaren Robert Dick vår syn på livets historia? Hur vet vi egentligen hur djupt havet är?

Efter debuten med ”Ålevangeliet” har Patrik Svensson skrivit en bok om människorna som utforskat, kartlagt, försökt förstå och lägga havet under sig. ”Den lodande människan” handlar om havets lockelse, om den där uråldriga drivkraften som i alla tider fått människor att söka sig ut på öppet hav. Det är en bok, kort sagt, om nyfikenheten

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Svante Arrhenius : nobelpristagare, kosmopolit och klimatpionjär

AvJan Malmborg

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

299 kr

Kemisten Svante Arrhenius var en av sin tids största vetenskapsmän och utsågs 1903 till Sveriges förste Nobelpristagare. Till hans bekantskapskrets räknades både Einstein, Curie, Pavlov och Bohr. Han var folkbildare, freds- och demokrativän och fick strida för sina idéer och ideal. 1896 presenterade han en teori som visade hur ökade utsläpp av fossila växthusgaser kunde orsaka en global uppvärmning. Den blev mycket ifrågasatt och glömdes sedan bort, men utgör idag grunden för modern klimatforskning. I den första populärvetenskapliga biografin om Svante Arrhenius skildras Sveriges omvandling från bondeland till industrination och en stridbar visionär i dess mitt.

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Den lodande människan : havet, djupet och nyfikenheten

AvPatrik Svensson

Storpocket, Svenska, 2023

147 kr

Del 5 - History of Modern Science

Petroleum from Coal

A Century of Synthesis

AvAnthony N. Stranges

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

2 593 kr

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Petroleum from Coal shows why and how Friedrich Bergius and Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1913-26 invented and developed synthetic fuel processes; explains why and how Matthias Pier at BASF- IG Farben and Otto Roelen at Ruhrchemie successfully industrialized the syntheses during the Nazi-World War II years; and analyzes the pre- and post-World War II vicissitudes of the synthetic fuel industry. The research of Germany’s scientists in the 1920s-40s made them world leaders in synthetic fuel studies. Information on the synthetic fuel processes has come from the Allied teams who went to Germany and Japan during World War II’s closing months and from British, American, and Canadian synthetic fuel investigations.

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Proto

How One Ancient Language Went Global

AvLaura Spinney

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

129 kr

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*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Star. Stjarna. Stare. Thousands of miles apart, people look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see.Listen to these English, Icelandic and Iranic words and you can hear echoes of one of the most extraordinary journeys in humanity’s past. All three of these languages – and hundreds more – share a single ancient ancestor.Five millennia ago, in a mysterious Big Bang of its own, this proto tongue exploded, forming new worlds as it spread east and west. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did this happen?In Proto, acclaimed journalist Laura Spinney sets off to find out. With her we travel the length of the steppe, navigating the Caucasus, the Silk Roads and the Hindu Kush. We follow in the footsteps of nomads and monks, Amazon warriors and lion kings – the ancient peoples who spread these tongues far and wide. In the present, Spinney meets the linguists, archaeologists and geneticists racing to recover this lost world. What they have discovered has vital lessons for our modern age, as people and their languages are on the move again.Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.

The Six-Cornered Snowflake

AvJohannes Kepler

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

364 kr

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Kepler's essay, On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, provides the first published evidence of the ideas of regular arrangements and close-packing which have proved fundamental to crystallography. In it, Kepler ponders on the problem of why snowflakes are hexagonal, two centuries before the first successful steps were taken towards its solution. The purpose of this volume is to display the historical, literary, scientific, and philosophical treasures of Kepler's essay. The book includes the modernized text of the 1611 Latin edition, with an English translation by Colin Hardie on the opposite pages. The text is accompanied by an introduction giving details of the history of the work, and two essays; Professor B. J. Mason's discussion of the scientific meaning and validity of Kepler's arguments and their relation to the history of crystallography and of space filling, and L. L. Whyte's examination of Kepler's facultas formatrix in relation to the history of philosophical and scientific ideas on the genesis of forms.

Mathematics

From the Birth of Numbers

AvJan Gullberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

673 kr

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This extraordinary work takes the reader on a long and fascinating journey--from the dual invention of numbers and language, through the major realms of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, to the final destination of differential equations, with excursions into mathematical logic, set theory, topology, fractals, probability, and assorted other mathematical byways. The book is unique among popular books on mathematics in combining an engaging, easy-to-read history of the subject with a comprehensive mathematical survey text. Intended, in the author's words, "for the benefit of those who never studied the subject, those who think they have forgotten what they once learned, or those with a sincere desire for more knowledge," it links mathematics to the humanities, linguistics, the natural sciences, and technology.Contains more than 1000 original technical illustrations, a multitude of reproductions from mathematical classics and other relevant works, and a generous sprinkling of humorous asides, ranging from limericks and tall stories to cartoons and decorative drawings.

Del 185 - Fundamental Theories of Physics

Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

AvGerard 't Hooft

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

539 kr

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This book presents the deterministic view of quantum mechanics developed by Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft. Dissatisfied with the uncomfortable gaps in the way conventional quantum mechanics meshes with the classical world, 't Hooft has revived the old hidden variable ideas, but now in a much more systematic way than usual.

Spectroscope and Gemmology

AvBasil Anderson,James Paynem. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

679 kr

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The first book devoted exclusively to the spectroscope and its use in gemstone identification. Until 1933 the refractometer and the microscope were the two principal tools in gem testing. Then B.W. Anderson introduced the hand spectroscope which quickly became the third vital instrument for the UK gemmologist. The publication of Anderson's papers in the mid-1950s alerted gem laboratories worldwide to the importance of this instrument. Today its use is universal.Anderson and his lifelong colleague, Payne, both of the world's first full-time gemmological laboratory, were the pioneers in recognizing the vast potential of the spectroscope for this purpose, and The Spectroscope and Gemmology, as the extensively edited, updated and enlarged version of Anderson’s original papers, provides a vital textbook wherever gemmology is used or taught. The distinguished gemmologist R. Keith Mitchell has undertaken the editing and has added chapters on the Pye spectrophotometer and on lasers. He has also reproduced new line drawings of spectra in three aspects to accommodate the prism instrument in both the British version and in that favoured by American gemmologists, and in another version as seen through the diffraction grating instrument.Written for gemmologists everywhere and incorporating the latest developments this book will prove indispensable to all engaged in gemstone identification.

Secrets of Alchemy

AvLawrence M. Principe

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

208 kr

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In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits, Principe illuminates the practice. He vividly depicts the place of alchemy during its heyday in early modern Europe, and then explores how alchemy has fit into wider views of the cosmos and humanity, touching on its enduring place in literature, fine art, theater, and religion as well as its recent acceptance as a serious subject of study for historians of science. In addition, he introduces the reader to some of the most fascinating alchemists, such as Zosimos and Basil Valentine, whose lives dot alchemy's long reign from the third century down to the present day.Through his exploration of alchemists and their times, Principe pieces together closely guarded clues from obscure and fragmented texts to reveal alchemy's secrets, and - most exciting for budding alchemists - uses them to recreate many of the most famous recipes in his lab, including those for the "glass of antimony" and "philosophers' tree." This unique approach brings the reader closer to the actual work of alchemy than any other book.

Making Modern Science, Second Edition

AvPeter J Bowler,Iwan Rhys Morus

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

417 kr

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In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world.Exploring both the history of science and its influence on modern thought, the authors chronicle the major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to contemporary issues in genetics, physics, and more. Designed for entry-level college courses and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Bowler and Morus present the history of science not as a series of names and dates but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships joining science and society. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the second edition draws on the latest research and scholarship. It also contains two entirely new chapters: one that explores the impact of computing on the development of science and another that surveys the complex interaction of Western science with the cultures of the rest of the world.

Way and the Word

Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

AvGeoffrey Lloyd,Nathan Sivin

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

356 kr

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The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication—each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200, casting new light not only on the two civilizations but also on the evolving character of science.Sir Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin investigate the differences between the thinkers in the two civilizations: what motivated them, how they understood the cosmos and the human body, how they were educated, how they made a living, and whom they argued with and why. The authors’ new method integrally compares social, political, and intellectual patterns and connections, demonstrating how all affected and were affected by ideas about cosmology and the physical world. They relate conceptual differences in China and Greece to the diverse ways that intellectuals in the two civilizations earned their living, interacted with fellow inquirers, and were involved with structures of authority. By A.D. 200 the distinctive scientific strengths of both China and Greece showed equal potential for theory and practice. Lloyd and Sivin argue that modern science evolved not out of the Greek tradition alone but from the strengths of China, Greece, India, Islam, and other civilizations, which converged first in the Muslim world and then in Renaissance Europe.

SpaceX

Starship to Mars – The First 20 Years

AvErik Seedhouse

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

329 kr

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Detailing the Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, the book shows how SpaceX is able to offer a full spectrum of light, medium, and heavy lift launch capabilities to its customers and how it is able to deliver spacecraft into any inclination and altitude, from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit to planetary missions.

Invention of Clouds

How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

AvRichard Hamblyn

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

120 kr

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An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they are known to this day. By creating a language to define structures that had, up to then, been considered random and unknowable, Howard revolutionized the science of meteorology and earned the admiration of his leading contemporaries in art, literature and science.Richard Hamblyn charts Howard’s life from obscurity to international fame, and back to obscurity once more. He recreates the period’s intoxicating atmosphere of scientific discovery, and shows how this provided inspiration for figures such as Goethe, Shelley and Constable. Offering rich insights into the nature of celebrity, the close relationship between the sciences and the arts, and the excitement generated by new ideas, The Invention of Clouds is an enthralling work of social and scientific history.

Nyhet

Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter

AvNeil DeGrasse Tyson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

295 kr

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Helgoland

The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

AvCarlo Rovelli

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

141 kr

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world.In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science. It is a celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place.Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations. Where we, as every other thing around us, exist in our interactions with one another, in a never-ending game of mirrors.A dazzling work from a celebrated scientist and master storyteller, Helgoland transports us to dizzying heights, reminding us of the many pleasures of the life of the mind.Translated by Erica Segre and Simon CarnellChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and ProspectShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

Hunger Fighters

AvPaul de Kruif

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

301 kr

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Uranium Club

Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program

AvMiriam E Hiebert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

317 kr

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Del 6 - I Tatti Renaissance Library

On Discovery

AvPolydore Vergil,Brian P. Copenhaverm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

288 kr

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The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions written since antiquity. Thirty Latin editions of this work were published in Polydore's lifetime, and by the eighteenth century more than a hundred editions had appeared in eight languages, including Russian. On Discovery became a key reference for anyone who wanted to know about "firsts" in theology, philosophy, science, technology, literature, language, law, material culture, and other fields. Polydore took his information from dozens of Greek, Roman, biblical, and Patristic authorities. His main point was to show that many Greek and Roman claims for discovery were false and that ancient Jews or other Asian peoples had priority. This is the first English translation of a critical edition based on the Latin texts published in Polydore Vergil's lifetime.

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

A New History of Their Lost World

AvSteve Brusatte

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

233 kr

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Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics?

AvFranck Laloë

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

753 kr

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Quantum mechanics impacts on many areas of physics from pure theory to applications. However it is difficult to interpret, and philosophical contradictions and counter-intuitive results are apparent at a fundamental level. This book presents current understanding of the theory, providing a historical introduction and discussing many of its interpretations. Fully revised from the first edition, this book contains state-of-the-art research including loophole-free experimental Bell test, and theorems on the reality of the wave function including the PBR theorem, and a new section on quantum simulation. More interpretations are now included, and these are described and compared, including discussion of their successes and difficulties. Other sections have been expanded, including quantum error correction codes and the reference section. It is ideal for researchers in physics and maths, and philosophers of science interested in quantum physics and its foundations.

Ptolemy's Geography

An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters

AvPtolemy

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

554 kr

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Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of Europe and Asia available and the best reference on how to gather data and draw maps. Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical locations. But more importantly, he introduced the practice of writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only the text of the Geography could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any time, in whole or in part, at any scale. Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the Geography and provide a thorough introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents of the Geography, and the later history of the work.

Alchemy

An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

AvPhilip Ball

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

380 kr

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Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy “Philip Ball’s book is a treasure: beautifully illustrated and, as usual, the author caries his learning lightly.”—David Wootton, Spectator The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people since antiquity. Many early cultures are known to have experimented with chemical transformations: from dyes, glazes, and cosmetics in Bronze Age Egypt to life-extending elixirs pursued by scholars in ancient China and India. Many have also attempted to transform lead, mercury, and other metals into gold—and some claim to have succeeded. In this visually stunning volume, Philip Ball sets alchemy within the context of the history of science and culture, showing that it was not simply an esoteric fantasy but an important phase in the development of experimental science and natural philosophy. Rich illustrations complement a narrative history of the methods and techniques developed in alchemical workshops, the search for the philosopher’s stone and “elixirs of life” that extended across diverse cultures, and the controversies surrounding the practices of making alchemical gold and alchemical medicine. Ball explores the rise of alchemy from its inception in Hellenistic culture, through the golden age of Islamic natural philosophy in the eighth to the eleventh centuries, to the emergence of the tradition of natural magic in the Renaissance, and to the roles of alchemical thought and practice in the beginnings of early modern science in the seventeenth century. He traces the persistence of alchemical ideas through the occult revival of the late nineteenth century and the fascination of the topic for modern artists and writers. This engaging and accessible book will provide readers of all backgrounds with a nuanced understanding of alchemy and its history.

Traversal

AvMaria Popova

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

333 kr

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In Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world? How do we safeguard our love of truth from our lust for power? What slakes our longings and what redeems our losses?Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with these questions - our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems - through the intertwined lives, loves and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright. Woven throughout their stories are other threads - the decoding of the insulin molecule, the invention of the bicycle, how nature creates blue - which come together to create a rich tapestry of life's meaning; exploring what it is that makes life alive and worth living.By turns epic and intimate, Traversal explores the universe between cells and souls to reveal the world, and our lives, in a dazzling new light.

Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1

Space, Time and Motion

AvSean Carroll

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

126 kr

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!’Brian Clegg, author of Ten Days in Physics that Shook the WorldImmense, strange and infinite, the world of modern physics often feels impenetrable to the undiscerning eye – a jumble of muons, gluons and quarks, impossible to explain without several degrees and a research position at CERN.But it doesn’t have to be this way!Allow world-renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Sean Carroll to guide you through the biggest ideas in the universe. Elegant and simple, Carroll unravels this web of theories and formulae equation by equation, getting to the heart of the truths they represent.—In Space, Time and Motion, the first book of this landmark trilogy, Carroll delves into the core of classical physics. From Euclid to Einstein, Space, Time and Motion explores the ideas which revolutionised science and forever changed our understanding of our place in the cosmos.

False Messiah

Darwinism as the God That Failed

AvNeil Thomas

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

274 kr

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