A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, ...

Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire, a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. But then a series of meetings of "natu...

Originally published in 1992 to great acclaim, this updated edition traces the course of Hawkinga (TM)s life and science, successfully marrying biography ...

The book of the famous British author John Gribbin, “In Search of Schrödinger's Cat,” which brought him fame, is considered one of the best popularizations o...

This book provides an entertaining account of what modern science has achieved and what it can still achieve. It describes the fascinating story of the searc...