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Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
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As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. …

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Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general …

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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
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‘It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, …

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of …

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Einstein and the Generations of Science
by Lewis S. Feuer
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No scientific breakthrough really happens by chance. A theory of relativity demands more than an Einstein, says Lewis …

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The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born
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The world is not ruled by reason; even less by love,” …

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Humanism and the Rise of Science in Tudor England
by Antonia McLean
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This work is of great interest not only to historians of science, but to all those concerned with …

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The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table
by Richard Morris
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They started with four: earth, air, fire, and water. From these basics, they …

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Galileo’s Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004
Bored during Mass at the drafty cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old …

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The Scientific Revolution
by Steven Shapin
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There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently …