Icon Science – serie
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Comet Sweeper (Icon Science)
Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
Av Claire Brock
Häftad, 2017
116 kr
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Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific and …
Science and Islam (Icon Science)
A History
Av Ehsan Masood
Häftad, 2017
121 kr
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Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad …
Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Science)
Häftad, 2017
116 kr
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The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science.Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph had made mass-communication possible and …
Eureka! (Icon Science)
The Birth of Science
Häftad, 2017
101 kr
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Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human …
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 …
Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science)
The Making of the Modern Computer
Av Jon Agar
Häftad, 2017
107 kr
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The history of the computer is entwinedwith that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant buttroubled Alan Turing.How did the computer come to structureand dominate our lives so totally? In Jon Agar's enlightening story of the'universal machine', we discover how Turing's …
