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The awe-inspiring, little-known story of Nobel laureate Frances Arnold’s discovery of directed enzyme evolutionーand how it was sparked by reading Jorge Luis Borges. In 1976, a young engineering stu……続きを見る

Diego Pirillo is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England and the Reformation (Cornell UP, 2018) 続きを見る

The Future of Astronomy is a thought-provoking exploration into the evolving landscape of astronomical science, authored by Edward C. Pickering. First published in the early 20th century, this book ……続きを見る

The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet, A.D. 1269 is a foundational scientific treatise that stands as one of the earliest known works dedicated entirely to the study of magnetism. Written by……続きを見る

A Plan for Securing Observations of the Variable Stars is a seminal work by Edward C. Pickering, first published in 1882, that outlines a systematic approach to the observation and study of variable……続きを見る

La terre et la lune : Forme extérieure et structure interne est un ouvrage scientifique écrit par l’astronome français Gaston Tissandier, publié à la fin du XIXe siècle. Ce livre propose une explora……続きを見る

The New Astronomy by Samuel Pierpont Langley is a groundbreaking work that explores the revolutionary changes in the field of astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century. First published in 1888,……続きを見る

'Absolutely fascinating' Dr Julie Smith, author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? 'Entrancing' David Robson, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Expectatio……続きを見る

El quinto volumen de la serie Siglo XX Venezolano presenta al lector un recorrido por el desarrollo del sistema científico del país durante la centuria pasada. El conjunto de ensayos, escritos por m……続きを見る

The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are……続きを見る

The Skybuilders by Mike V. Piana is a provocative exploration of humanity's hidden history, blending ancient mysteries with modern anomalies. Delving into forgotten civilizations predating Adam, pre……続きを見る

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. ……続きを見る

Do numbers, sets, and so forth, exist? What do mathematical statements mean? Are they literally true or false, or do they lack truth values altogether? Addressing questions that have attracted livel……続きを見る

Depuis l’Antiquité, l’Homme cherche à comprendre et mesurer la Terre. Ce livre retrace, en une centaine d’événements marquants, l’évolution des techniques et des découvertes qui ont permis de mieux ……続きを見る

Comment fonctionne l’estomac d’un ogre ? À quelle heure est-on le plus honnête ? À quoi reconnaît-on un cochon heureux ? À toutes ces questions apparemment saugrenues, des chercheurs ont pris le tem……続きを見る

Sept grandes figures de la médecine célébrées et réhabilitées. Car je suis de ceux, comme Marie Curie, " qui pensent que la science est d'une grande beauté ". A l'heure des fake news et de l'opinio……続きを見る

This book takes the reader on a visual journey of the microscope and shares exciting stories about its development and the new technologies that exist that renders the invisible visible. The book be……続きを見る

What if the history of science is wrong? What if the discovery that reshaped our worldーthe existence of the atomーwas made not in ancient Greece, but thousands of miles away, by a mysterious sage i……続きを見る

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe. In Animals in the World, renowned Aristotle scholar Pierre Pellegrin at……続きを見る

What if the history of science you were taught is only half the story? Long before Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, a brilliant scientific revolution was taking place in the heart of ancient India. ……続きを見る

"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." ー New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In Th……続きを見る

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious val……続きを見る

A science layperson's guide to examining the nature of reality by performing a series of easy and simple tests and experiments. This book also focuses on how ancient man first devised some simple to……続きを見る

Ce livre retrace l’histoire méconnue de l’ingénierie de l’élevage (bovins, ovins, caprins) en France entre 1962 et 2022. S’appuyant sur des entretiens et des archives inédites, il relate les métamor……続きを見る

Alors que le monde industrialisé pensait en avoir fini avec la question des subsistances, la Seconde Guerre mondiale replace l’agriculture et l’alimentation au cœur des enjeux de la reconstruction. ……続きを見る

Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier ……続きを見る

La maladie de l’âme... la belle expression platonicienne n’a de cesse d’être d’actualité. Non seulement elle est prompte à revenir d’époque en époque, mais elle semble particulièrement friande de la……続きを見る

La prima edizione italiana in forma autonoma del celebre intervento di Boris Hessen al Secondo Congresso Internazionale di Storia della Scienza di Londra del 1931 sulle radici sociali ed economiche ……続きを見る

In questo saggio breve e penetrante, Piero Martinetti, tra i maggiori pensatori italiani del Novecento, si confronta con il concetto di numero da una prospettiva eminentemente filosofica. In quanto ……続きを見る

République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des sciences, les collections d’histoire naturelle, et un événement colossal, la Révolution. Les années 1……続きを見る