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(Hardback)
By: Robert Temple
ISBN: 9781740665339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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Undisputed masters of invention and discovery, the ancient Chinese were the first to drill for oil, to discover the circulation of the blood and even to isolate sex hormones. From the suspension bridge and fishing reel, to the decimal system and grenades. China's contribution in engineering medicine, etc. helped inspire the West.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Jenny Uglow
ISBN: 9780571216109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world.
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241471258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Dr. Anna Ferrari
ISBN: 9781785515828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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Versailles: Science and Splendour is a richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the court of Versailles published to accompany the exhibition at Londons Science Museum.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Cave
ISBN: 9780500292006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. From spider monkeys to human cyborgs, and from swimming in syrup to chaos theory, the author places each experiment and discovery in its scientific context.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Bresalier
ISBN: 9781441191922
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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(Paperback)
By: Carlo Rovelli
ISBN: 9780241635049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Caren Cooper
ISBN: 9780715652336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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Discover how this global phenomenon allows ordinary people to effect scientific advancement and conservation
(Hardback, Multilingual edition)
By: Anna Escard
ISBN: 9783836573337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
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From the first detailed drawing of the moon to the depiction of stem cells, this collection of scientific illustrations traces the visual history of knowledge from the 15th century to today. Some 300 milestones in all fields of science chronicle humanity's great discoveries through the work of those who studied and documented them.
(Hardback)
By: Thomas Hager
ISBN: 9781419734403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Abrams
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Beginning with opium, the "joy plant," which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager's subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain; the infamous knockout drops; the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives; the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals; Viagra, statins; and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Robinson
ISBN: 9780500251911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. This title features articles that offer an account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Robinson
ISBN: 9780500297063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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By: Peter J. T. Morris
ISBN: 9781474294928
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first detailed and authoritative survey of chemistry and its central role in society over the last 5000 years.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Marco Beretta
ISBN: 9781350552036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Marco Beretta
ISBN: 9781474294539
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Also available open access.
(Hardback)
By: Bruce T. Moran
ISBN: 9781474294591
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Traces chemical debates and practices within their cultural, social and political contexts during the period from 1500-1700.
(Paperback)
By: Bruce T. Moran
ISBN: 9781350552081
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Matthew Daniel Eddy
ISBN: 9781474294652
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Sets the progress of science and technology in its cultural context during the period often described as a "chemical revolution" from 1700-1815.
(Paperback)
By: Matthew Daniel Eddy
ISBN: 9781350552142
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Emeritus Charles Burnett
ISBN: 9781474294546
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores alchemy and alchemical practice in the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Charles Burnett
ISBN: 9781350552043
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Peter J. T. Morris
ISBN: 9781474294812
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Looks at the impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy in the "chemical age" from 1914 to the present.
(Paperback)
By: Peter J. T. Morris
ISBN: 9781350552197
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Peter J. Ramberg
ISBN: 9781474294805
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores the birth of modern chemistry in the period from 1815-1914, looking at the elaboration of atomic theory, the growth of the chemical industry, new instruments and practices, the chemical laboratory, and the discovery of radioactivity.
