How the World's Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge
Brian Clegg
In a survey lavishly illustrated with examples ranging from Assyrian clay tablets to Sabine Hossenfelder’s Lost in Math (2018), Brian Clegg examines the science book as ‘an essential marker of the progress of science and of its relevance to society’. Beginning with the ancient world, he discusses the Renaissance, the ‘Classical’ science writing of the 19th century, the growing general readership after 1900 and the explosion of popular science publishing that followed Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time (1988).
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