Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923) was a woman of stark contradictions and unyielding rigor. A mathematical prodigy who solved the complex instability of the electric arc, she was simultaneously denied a Cam……続きを見る
Sir Alister Hardy (1896–1985) was a figure whose mind spanned the physical and the metaphysical, making him one of the most unique thinkers of the 20th century.
In the 1920s, as Chief Zoologist aboa……続きを見る
The year 1980 marked the end of chaos and the beginning of modern psychiatry. Its architect was Dr. Robert L. Spitzer.
Before the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition ……続きを見る
The Man Who Measured the Earth's Rage: Charles Richter
The name is instantly recognizable, but the man remains a mystery.
Before Charles Richter, earthquakes were measured by anecdote and terror. Af……続きを見る
Discover the mind that changed the world.
Diagnosed with autism in an era of misunderstanding, Temple Grandin's mind operates purely in pictures, processing the world with a sensory intensity that c……続きを見る
The Invisible Dance of Atoms: How One Man Solved Chemistry's Greatest Black Box
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In the height of the 13th century, between the great works of Aquinas and the dawn of the Renaissance, stood Roger Bacon, a man whose singular genius and relentless polemics threatened the foundatio……続きを見る
THE WORLD'S FIRST CHEMIST WAS A WOMAN.
Before Socrates, before alchemy, before the scientific revolution, her name was inscribed on a cuneiform tablet: Tapputi-Belatekallim.
Dating back to the secon……続きを見る
The Prophet of the Digital Age
A mathematician obsessed with fixing the errors of the Victorian world, Charles Babbage designed the first general-purpose, programmable computer a full century before……続きを見る
Before the computer, before the steam engine, there was Ctesibius.
In the bustling, brilliant city of Alexandria, 3rd century BCE, a humble barber named Ctesibius sparked the world's first mechanica……続きを見る
In 1948, cancer was a death sentence. For children, leukemia was a swift and brutal certainty. Then came Dr. Sidney Farber.
Working from a cramped Boston lab, Farber took an audacious gamble, pionee……続きを見る
In the third century B.C., the Earth was a philosophical concept. One man dared to make it measurable.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Chief Librarian of the legendary Library of Alexandria, was the ultimat……続きを見る
For decades after Darwin, the field of biology faced a fundamental crisis: Where was the physical engine of inheritance? The greatest theories of the age were in conflict, leaving the mechanism of e……続きを見る
In the mid-19th century, London was the sprawling capital of the world's greatest empireーand a biological time bomb. Choked by the Great Stink and devastated by relentless cholera epidemics, the ci……続きを見る
Peter Cooper (1791–1883) was more than an industrialistーhe was the engine of the American century.
Born into poverty, self-educated, and relentlessly inventive, Cooper built the Tom Thumb, the firs……続きを見る
The Space Age didn't begin with a launchーit began with a blueprint.
Meet Hermann Oberth, the solitary Transylvanian physicist who, in 1923, mathematically proved that space travel was possible. Dec……続きを見る
In 1937, Bell Labs physicist George Stibitz grew tired of endless manual calculations. His solution? He built the world's first binary adderーthe "Model K"ーusing scrap metal and phone relays, right……続きを見る
Before him, the electrical life of the heart was an invisible mystery. After him, medicine was changed forever.
For centuries, the human heart remained a black box, its vital electrical symphony muf……続きを見る
The Continents Are Moving. No One Believed Him.
When Alfred Wegener first looked at a map, he saw a broken puzzle. The coastlines of Africa and South America seemed to fit perfectlyーa clue that led……続きを見る
The world's first successful antifungal drug saved millions of lives. The two women who discovered it gave away their fortune.
Elizabeth Lee Hazen was not destined for scientific fame. Orphaned youn……続きを見る
For five centuries, his work was the definitive text for every surgeon in the Western world. Yet, the name of Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi has been largely forgotten.
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While Alan Turing and John von Neumann provided the theoretical blueprints for the computer, the true digital revolution began not on paper, but in the meticulous reality of a working machine. That ……続きを見る
William Powell Lear (1902–1978) never finished high school, yet he became one of the most prolific and disruptive inventors of the twentieth century. His life was a dizzying, high-stakes chronicle o……続きを見る
Un viaje visual y narrativo único a través de la mente más brillante del Renacimiento.
Este libro, concebido y creado íntegramente por The Mika King, es una obra ilustrada que explora la vida, las i……続きを見る
In August 1950, while en route to a fellowship at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and the International Congress of Mathematicians, Indian mathematician S. S. Pillai died tragically in a pl……続きを見る
In the history of science, there are heroes whose battle is fought not just against the unknown, but against the establishment itself.
Beatrice Tinsley, born in New Zealand, was the visionary who re……続きを見る
She wore the trousers of a man and the Congressional Medal of Honor of a soldier.
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832–1919) was a woman of relentless paradox: a licensed physician, a daring Civil War surg……続きを見る
Perfect for plant lovers, Through the Seasons is a visually stunning resource showcasing the native plants of the northeastern United States in their natural habitats.A culmination of a decade of ex……続きを見る
This is the most thorough treatment ever undertaken on the Sciuridae and promises to be the definitive book on squirrels for decades to come.
Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more ……続きを見る
The man who saved the world's food died starving in prison.
Nikolay Vavilov was a visionary scientist consumed by a singular, prophetic mission: to secure humanity's food supply. Traveling to sixty-……続きを見る
