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Bilim Dört Bin Yillik Bir Tarih, adindan da anlasilacagi gibi bir bilim tarihi kitabi. Ama onu ana akim bilim tarihi anlatilarindan farkli kilan bircok özelligi var. Patricia Fara kitabin girisinde söyle diyor Tarih yazmak, olgulari düzenli bir sekilde bir araya getirmek ve olaylari dogru bir sekilde siralamaktan ibaret degildir, neyi dahil edeceginiz ve kimi haric tutacaginiz gibi konularda secimler yaparak gecmisi yeniden yorumlamayi, dünyay...

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The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.

A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and other scientific endeavours) was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his more famous grandson.

2018 marked the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by exploring how the War gave female scientists, doctors, and engineers unprecedented opportunities to undertake endeavours normally reserved for men.

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2018 is the anniversary of women over 30 getting the vote as well as the end of WW1~Includes substantial discussion of Ray Strachey, who was Virginia Woolf's sister-in-law, and an eminent suffrage leader~Includes biographical accounts of prominent scientific women who have been neglected (including Isabel Emslie Hutton, Ida Smedley, Helen Gwynne Vaughan, Helena Gleichen, and Martha Whiteley) enlivened by quotations from their letters~Using ori...

The sexual symbolism of Enlightenment botany.

The big names are here - Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Rosalind Franklin - alongside stories of brilliant women who have been forgotten, in a fascinating blend of history, science and biography.

MEMORY explores some of the many ways that individuals and societies remember, forget, and commemorate events of the past. This thought-provoking and unusual collection will delight a wide variety of readers. 15 photos. 30 diagrams.

Isaac Newton has become an intellectual avatar for our modern age, the man who, as even children know, was inspired to codify nature's laws by watching an apple fall from a tree. Yet Newton devoted much of his energy to deciphering the mysteries of alchemy, theology, and ancient chronology. How did a man who was at first obscure to all but a few esoteric natural philosophers and Cambridge scholars, was preoccupied with investigations of millen...

In this 1996 volume eight famous experts present their energetic commitment to global improvement.

A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and other scientific endeavours) was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his more famous grandson.

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In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympathies, in this maritime nation, magnetic instruments such as navigational compasses heralded imperi...

A history of science that ranges from the astronomers of ancient Babylon to today's geneticists and particle physicists with a focus on how science has been guided and controlled by social and political factors.

Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education.

An Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men, one observer called electricity, and it proved to be the most significant scientific discovery of the Enlightenment. Lecturers attracted huge audiences who marveled at sparkling fountains, flaming drinks, pirouetting dancers, and electrified boys. Flamboyant experimenters made chains of soldiers leap into the air, while wealthy women titillated their admirers with a sensational electric kiss. O...

Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism -- to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the renowned Tahitian exploits of Joseph Banks -- whose trousers we...

Isaac Newton has become an intellectual avatar for our modern age, the man who, as even children know, was inspired to codify nature's laws by watching an apple fall from a tree. Yet Newton devoted much of his energy to deciphering the mysteries of alchemy, theology, and ancient chronology. How did a man who was at first obscure to all but a few esoteric natural philosophers and Cambridge scholars, was preoccupied with investigations of millen...