Tag search:history of science

North Pole, South Pole: The epic quest to solve the great mystery of Earth's magnetism

by Gillian Turner
Paperback, 2011
Tags
magnetism, geophysics, geography, geomagnetism, history of science, tpb
Call number
538.72

A More Perfect Heaven: How Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos

by Dava Sobel
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
early reviewer, history, history of science, hb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
520.92

Seeing Further: The story of science & the Royal Society

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2011
Tags
essays, history, history of science, royal society, tpb
Call number
506.041

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

by Richard Holmes
Paperback, 2010
Tags
history, history of science, biography, tpb
Call number
509.4109033

Naming Nature: The clash between instinct and science

by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Paperback, 2009
Tags
biology, taxonomy, history of science, tpb
Call number
570.14

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

by George Johnson
Paperback, 2008
Tags
science, nonfiction, history of science, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
507.8

Circumference: Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe

by Nicholas Nicastro
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
early reviewer, history of science, eratosthenes, geodesy, nonfiction, hb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
526.1092

The Canon: A whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science

by Natalie Angier
Ebook, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, science, popular-level, history of science, ebook, coverguess mismatch
Collection
E-books
Call number
500

A world on fire: A heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen

by Joe Jackson
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, history of science, biography, joseph priestly, antoine lavoisier, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
546.721

The Archimedes Codex: How a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity's greatest scientist

by Reviel Netz
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
history, ancient history, history of science, math, archimedes, archimedes palimpsest, nonfiction, hb
Call number
532.25

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, biography, history of science, ftppl, hb
Call number
500 21

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the birth of modern geology

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2001
Tags
tpb, nonfiction, history, geology, biography, history of science
Call number
550.92 S664Wi

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

by Tom Shachtman
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, physics, history of science, low temperature, tpb
Call number
536.56

Longitude: The true story of a long genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of science, history of technology, longitude, biography, tpb
Call number
526.6209 20

The Discoverers

by Daniel J. Boorstin
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of science, hb
Series
Boorstin's Histories (1)
Call number
909 19

The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1981
Tags
nonfiction, sociology, psychology, history of science, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
153.93 19
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