Science

Seduced by Logic

by Robyn Arianrhod
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genre History · Science

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) and Mary Somerville (1780–1872) were among the leading natural philosophers and mathematicians of their age, celebrated for expounding and extending Newton’s Principia and for their own work in calculus, optics, gravity and energy.

We can only imagine what else they might have accomplished if they had been permitted to enrol at university and participate in the public life of the mind as fully as the men who they challenged and inspired.

Seduced by Logic is an exploration of passions both physical and metaphysical, and potential both realised and frustrated. It brings to life two remarkable women and the fundamental riddles of the universe that they worked on together across the centuries.

Young Einstein: and the Story of E=mc²

by Robyn Arianrhod
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genre Non-fiction · Science

Everyone recognises the famous physicist with the wild, white hair. But what sort of person was the young Albert Einstein, before he became universally acclaimed as the archetypal genius? And how did his genius unfold?

In this compact, brilliant work—originally a Kindle Single—scientist Robyn Arianrhod blends biography with popular science to tell the story of how young Albert developed a theory that—unknown to him at first—contained the seeds of his extraordinary equation E=mc².

Voyages to the South Seas

by Danielle Clode
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genre Non-fiction · Science

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, Voyages to the South Seas is an exhilarating expedition through a key period in the European exploration of the Pacific and in the history of science.

The Knowledge Wars

by Peter Doherty
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genre Non-fiction · Science

Science and scientists have found themselves in conflict with powerful interests since Galileo, but perhaps never before have they been under attack on so many fronts. When it comes to climate change, vaccinations and the causes of disease, genetically modified organisms and even evolution, it’s hard to tell where science ends and vested interests, politics and wishful thinking begin. Or is it?

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