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  • Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England

    Visual Communication and the Royal Society

    par Meghan Doherty ...
    Collections series Scientiae Studies
    Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and connoisseurship; the role of an epistolary network in the production of knowledge; balancing readers' expectations with representational conventions; and the effects of collecting on the creation and ... En savoir plus

    $84.13 CAD

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  • The Clockwork Universe

    Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, & the Birth of the Modern World

    par Edward Dolnick ...
    New York Times–bestselling Author: An "entertainingly written" account of the scientific revolution that emerged amid the horrors of seventeenth-century London ( Kirkus Reviews).In the late seventeenth century, chaos and disease reigned. Streets overflowed with filth and the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Sickness was divine punishment, astronomy and astrology were ... En savoir plus

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  • The Jewel House

    Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

    par Deborah E. Harkness ...
    **The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches examines the real-life history of the scientific community of Elizabethan London.Travel to the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Invention of Science

    A New History of the Scientific Revolution

    par David Wootton ...
    This "fantastic revisionist history . . . captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in" ( Financial Times).We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. In The Invention of Science, historian David Wootton reveals why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. Spanning continents and centuries ... En savoir plus

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  • Seeing Further

    350 Years of the Royal Society and Scientific Endeavour

    Modifié par Bill Bryson ...
    From the Royal Society, a peerless collection of all-new science writing.Bill Bryson, who explored all—or at least a great deal of—current scientific knowledge in A Short History of Nearly Everything, now turns his attention to the history of that knowledge. As editor of Seeing Further, he has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Isaac Newton

    par James Gleick ...
    Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Day the Universe Changed

    par James Burke ...
    The companion volume for the award-winning PBS and BBC series from "one of the most intriguing minds in the western world" ( The Washington Post).The Day the Universe Changed presents a sweeping view of the history of science, technology, and human civilization and examines the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Ascent Of Man

    par Jacob Bronowski ...
    Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beyond Measure

    The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

    par James Vincent ...
    **Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & TechnologyNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Economist"Quietly thrilling.…The story of humans measuring things is no less than the story of civilization." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book ReviewA vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.* ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    par Jessica Riskin ...
    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... En savoir plus

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  • Curiosity

    How Science Became Interested in Everything

    par Philip Ball ...
    With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science—that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet there was a time when curiosity was condemned. Neither Pandora nor Eve could resist the dangerous allure of unanswered questions, and all knowledge wasn't ... En savoir plus

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  • Eye of the Beholder

    Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

    par Laura J. Snyder ...
    The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the ... En savoir plus

    $18.19 CAD