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Experimental Fire Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700

Rampling Jennifer M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226710709, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 tables

In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could...

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Epochs of Nature

Leclerc Georges-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226395432, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's "The Epochs of Nature", originally published as "Les Epoques de la Nature" in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of R...

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Exploration and Discovery Treasures of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Skelly David K., Near Thomas J., Lorenz Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781933789057, Yale University Press, April 2016
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 150 colour illus.

Founded in 1866 with a generous gift from international financier George Peabody, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University has for 150 years acquired, studied, protected, and displayed its ever-expanding collections. Among the museum'...

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Egyptian Oedipus Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

Stolzenberg Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226273273, ISBN: HB: 9780226924144, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones

A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology,...

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Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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Physics

Elementary Particles

Fermi Enrico, Appelquist Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300183184, Yale University Press, October 2012
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's "Elementary Particles" continues to guide physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the f...

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Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

Bloor David

ISBN: PB: 9780226060958, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 97 halftones

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership o...

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Evolution

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Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History

Graham Michael H., Parker Joan, Dayton Paul K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...

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Philosophy

Exploring the Scientific Method Cases and Questions

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226294834, ISBN: HB: 9780226294810, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
424 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 4 tables

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

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