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By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691246161
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691048413
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Opens in spring 1914 when Einstein takes up a research professorship at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and closes with the collapse of the German Empire four and one-half years later. This work touches on various aspects of Einstein's activities and sheds fresh light on his inner life.
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By: Charles Coulston Gillispie
ISBN: 9780691172521
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Galileo Galilei
ISBN: 9780872209374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Spanning Galileo's career, this title presents an annotated translation of Galileo's important writings as judged by their historical impact from the 17th century to the present. It provides those writings that bear closely on key developments in physics, astronomy, epistemology, and scientific methodology, and those relevant to general culture.
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By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691201023
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691174419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Jed Z. Buchwald
ISBN: 9780691145761
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Dendera zodiac - an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets - was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. This title tells the story of this incredible archeological find.
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By: Len Fisher
ISBN: 9781611452983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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An entertaining and thought-provoking foray into the science of the bizarre, the peculiar, and the downright...
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By: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9781529400472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A thrilling account of a centuries-old rivalry - an exploration of scientific discovery and its evolution in an ever-changing and displaced world.
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By: National Geographic
ISBN: 9781426205446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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A panoramic perspective on humankinds restless quest for the laws, theories, and tools by which we can grasp and master our universe.
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By: Frederic Lawrence Holmes
ISBN: 9780691605920
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Through his development of quantitative experimental methods, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) implemented a principle that many regard as the cornerstone of modern science: in every operation there is an equal quantity of material before and after the operation. The origin of Lavoisier's methods, however, has remained a missing piece in t
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By: Peter Macinnis
ISBN: 9780642277541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: National Library of Australia
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By: Jeremy Bernstein
ISBN: 9781742230887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: UNSW Press
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From the discovery of uranium in 1789 to the Manhattan Project, from Nazi efforts to build a nuclear bomb to the Cold War, this is the important story of one of nature's rarest elements, put to deadly use in nuclear weapons. Includes revealing word portraits of scientists who helped discover the element and produce it in vast quantities.
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By: Katie Spalding
ISBN: 9781472294067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.
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By: Alison Bashford
ISBN: 9780241434321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Poskett
ISBN: 9780241394106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Rick Beyer
ISBN: 9780061626968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The author of the highly successful History Channel series "The Greatest Stories Never Told" returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing science stories of discovery and invention.
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By: Adrian Tinniswood
ISBN: 9781786691897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of a British institution whose fellows, including Newton, Darwin and Hawking, have changed the way we look at the world.
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By: Clifford A. Pickover
ISBN: 9781454930068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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This illustrated compendium includes 250 entries on science selected from titles in the `Sterling Milestones series.
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By: Patricia Fara
ISBN: 9781785782077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Icon Books
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Benjamin Franklin's Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity.
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By: Piers Bizony
ISBN: 9781785782053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Icon Books
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How 200 years of classical physics was turned on its head.
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By: Andrew Gregory
ISBN: 9781785781919
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Icon Books
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An exploration of the eruption of scientific activity in the Ancient Greek world.
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By: James Hannam
ISBN: 9781848311503
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2010
Publisher: Icon Books
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A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world.
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By: Iwan Rhys Morus
ISBN: 9781785789281
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Icon Books
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The Victorians invented the idea of the future - it was an undiscovered country, ripe for exploration and colonisation.
