The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
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Thomas Young (1773-1829) was the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave not a stream of corpuscles as Newton proclaimed. In any book on the eye and vision, Young is the London physician who showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-color theory of vision confirmed only in 1959. ...Show more
THE INTELLIGENT MAN'S GUIDE TO SCIENCE : 2 VOLUME BOXED SET by ISACC ASIMOV
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THE HISTORY OF INOCULATION AND VACCINATION FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE
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MEMORANDA ON MEDICAL DISEASES IN TROPICAL AND SUB-TROPICAL AREAS
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Darwin to DNA, Molecules to Humanity by G. Ledyard Stebbins
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The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum
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*Shall we take an umbrella... or evacuate the city? The Weather Machine is about a miraculous-but-overlooked invention that helps us through our daily lives - and sometimes saves them - by allowing us to see into the future. When Superstorm Sandy hit North America, weather scientists had predicted its a ...Show more
Life's Grandeur : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
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Argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. This book states that if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the unfathomably rich source of ...Show more
Medical Butterflies - Flitting Vignettes of Medical History - SIGNED by John Pearn
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd by Randall Munroe
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Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever t ...Show more
Unravelling Piltdown - The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution by John Evangelist Walsh
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In 1913 amateur fossil hunter and archaeologist Charles Dawson found in a gravel pit the cranium and jaw of an entirely new species of humanoid, which became known as Piltdown man, which caused headlines worldwide as the missing link between man and ape. In 1952, it was exposed as a hoax. With eight pag ...Show more