We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the
In this book, John Gribbin tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, D
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the histo