Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Great ideas of science Great ideas of science Isaac Asimov Discusses the background of thought leading to the revolutionary scientific discoveries of such scientists as Darwin, Pythagoras, Newton, and Galileo. OL15330848W
Your head shape reveals your personality! Your head shape reveals your personality! Christine Zuchora-Walske "What if someone told you that your liver pumped blood through your body? You'd think that person was crazy! Discover how thought about the human body has changed over the centuries."-- OL17897065W
Makers of science Makers of science Michael Allaby Five volumes present the lives and work of more than 40 great Western physicists, chemists, biologists, physiologists, and more. Each biography includes two timelines: scientific and political-cultur… OL1900023W
Situating the history of science Situating the history of science Joseph Needham,Dhruv Raina,S. Irfan Habib Contributed articles presented at a seminar at New Delhi in Sept. 1996. OL19384816W
Science and the Founding Fathers Science and the Founding Fathers I. Bernard Cohen For Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison, science was an integral part of life -- including political life. This is the story of their scientific education and of how th… OL1977465W
The Changing Image of the Sciences The Changing Image of the Sciences Ida H. Stamhuis The theme was chosen because of the great concern with the worldwide decreasing interest in the natural sciences. The image of these sciences as dull, uninspiring, masculine, environmentally unfriend… OL19833837W
Economy and nature in the fourteenth century Economy and nature in the fourteenth century Joel Kaye This book provides new perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitate… OL2647546W
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science Stillman Drake Stillman Drake was one of the 20th century's authors on the subject of Galileo's scientific work. This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers Drake published, most on Galileo but some on m… OL3744398W
The Age of Everything The Age of Everything Matthew Hedman Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everyt… OL9347879W
Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France (Studies in Early Modern European H… Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France (Studies in Early Modern European H… Michael R. Lynn 1 online resource (192 pages) OL9423659W