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Brilliant Blunders
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableWE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. Nobody?s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his... more...
The Science Magpie
Icon Books 2012; US$ 11.65From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen. Skip through time with Darwin's... more...
Brilliant Blunders
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableWE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. Nobody?s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his... more...
Science in the Age of Baroque
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and... more...
A History of the Electron
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 64.00Intellectual biography of J. J. and G. P. Thomson for academics and graduate students, focusing on the concept of the electron. more...
Science in History
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 18.94J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the limitations placed upon) discovery and invention by pastoral,... more...
Tid
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 19.88Tidsmaskiner danner grundlag for mange af de store biografsucceser gennem de senere årtier - f.eks. Stargate, Tilbage til fremtiden og Terminator. Men er tidsrejser ren science fiction? Nej, er svaret i Tid - Den relative virkelighed, de er ikke bare mulige, men uundgåelige, for faktisk rejser vi en smule i tiden, hver gang vi bevæger os.På baggrund... more...
The Undergrowth of Science
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 13.99Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in this book are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed.... more...
The Road to Stockholm
OUP Oxford 2003; US$ 38.99The Nobel Prize is by far the highest recognition a scientist may receive and the only one with which the general public is familiar. Its prestige has reached improbable heights. At the same time a lot of myth surrounds the Nobel Prize, and this is compounded by the fact that people tend to view scientists with some bewilderment.This book introduces... more...
Serving the Reich
Random House 2013; US$ 26.69Three lives caught between the idealistic goals of science and a tyrannical ideology. Serving the Reich tells the story of three world-renowned physicists working under Hitler against the background of the attempt by Nazi scientists to create 'German Physics' - an Aryan science that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', in particular Einstein's... more...









