History of Science
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Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
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Book review: ‘Arctic Dreams’ by Barry Lopez
Deservedly seen as a classic.
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Book review: ‘The Laws of Thermodynamics’ by Peter Atkins
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’ by Jonathan Howard
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘Evolution’ by Brian & Deborah Charlesworth
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Fossils’ by Adrian Lister
Discoveries that shaped evolution.
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Book review: ‘The Development of Darwin’s Theory’ by Dov Ospovat
Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838–1859.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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Book review: ‘Unnatural Selection’ by Katrina van Grouw
Art meets science in this stunningly illustrated book.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
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Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
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Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.