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Iconos de la CienciaSerie

Esta serie se adentra en el cautivador mundo de la ciencia, explorando cómo figuras icónicas y momentos cruciales han moldeado su trayectoria. Examina descubrimientos revolucionarios, mentes brillantes y su impacto imborrable en nuestra comprensión del universo. Cada entrega desvela nuevas perspectivas sobre el avance científico y su significado cultural. Es un viaje esclarecedor para los intelectualmente curiosos.

Eureka!
Atom
Knowledge Is Power
Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century
Science and Islam (Arabic - Al Ilm Wal Islam)
The Comet Sweeper

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  • The Comet Sweeper

    • 304 páginas
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    Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific and popular fame. She was awarded a salary by George III in 1787 -- the first woman in Britain to make her living from science. But, as a woman in a male-dominated world, Herschel's great success was achieved despite constant frustration of her ambitions. Drawing on original sources -- including Herschel's diaries and her fiery letters -- Claire Brock tells the story of a woman determined to win independence and satisfy her astronomical ambition.

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  • Eureka!

    • 192 páginas
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    "Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology -- science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were among its stars. 'Eureka!' shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, these early thinkers rejected myths and capricious gods and, in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, effectively discovered nature. Their development of a rational 'scientific' attitude to the natural world is one of the true wonders of human thought." -- from the rear cover.

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  • Written in Stone

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    Darwin’s theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of ‘transitional fossils’ was hotly debated; some palaeontologists wondered if these ‘missing links’ had been so quick that no trace of them was left. However, during the past three decades fossils of walking whales from Pakistan, feathered dinosaurs from China, fish with feet from the Arctic Circle, ape-like humans from Africa, and many more bizarre creatures that fill in crucial gaps in our understanding of evolution have all been unearthed. The first account of the hunt for evolution’s ‘missing links’, Written in Stone shows how these discoveries have revolutionised palaeontology, and explores what its findings might mean for our place on earth.

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  • Sex, Botany and Empire

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    "When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science? In Sweden and Britain, both imperial powers, Banks and Carl Linneaus ruled over their own small scientific empires, promoting botanical exploration to justify the exploitation of territories, peoples and natural resources. Regarding native peoples with disdain, these two scientific emperors portrayed the Arctic North and the Pacific Ocean as uncorrupted Edens, free from the shackles of Western sexual mores. Patricia Fara reveals the existence, barely concealed under Banks' and Linnaeus' camouflage of noble Enlightenment, of the altogether more seedy drives to conquer, subdue and deflower in the name of the British Imperial state." -- Provided by publisher.

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  • Knowledge is Power

    • 192 páginas
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    John Henry gives a dramatic account of the background to Bacon's innovations and the sometimes unconventional sources for his ideas.

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  • Science and Islam

    • 256 páginas
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    Between the 8th and 15th centuries, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy to new heights. This book takes the reader through the Islamic empires of the middle ages.

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