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This book had its origins in my skywatching guides for amateur astronomers. As I came to describe each constellation, I found myself wondering about its origin and the way in which ancient people had personified it in mythology.…

, a book which remains as topical today as it was when it first appeared twenty-five years ago, articulates and develops Bronowski's provocative idea that the sciences and the arts fundamentally share the same imaginative vision.

Complete, thorough history: Near Eastern, early Greeks, homocentric theories, Ptolemaic system, medieval cosmology, Copernicus, Kepler, etc. This volume is a Dover republication of Dreyer's "History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler"…

A masterpiece of historical insight and scientific accuracy, this is the definitive work on Greek astronomy and the Copernican Revolution. Beginning with the ancient Egyptians, it ranges from the Pythagoreans and Plato to medieval European and…

The Beat of a Different Drum is a superb account of Feynman's life and work, encompassing a singular career that spanned from the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos to the frontiers of our understanding of the universe. The first…

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 honour for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the…

As a schoolbook figure, Isaac Newton is most often pictured sitting under an apple tree, about to discover the secrets of gravity. In this short biography, James Gleick reveals the life of a man whose contributions to science and math included far…

Driving Force unfolds the long and colourful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human…

De Leidse sterrenkundige Willem de Sitter (1872-1934) was een van de invloedrijkste astronomen van zijn tijd. Hij berekende de gevolgen van Einsteins algemene relativiteitstheorie voor de astronomie. Hij leidde een alternatief model af voor het…

Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992) was een van de grote sterrenkundigen van de vorige eeuw. Bij veel mensenn is hij bekend vanwege zijn idee van de kometenwolk - 'Oortwolk' - aan de grenzen van het zonnestelsel en de ontrafeling van de structuur van ons…