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Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Category: Science
'At last - a scintillating biography of Christiaan Huygens . . . Hugh Aldersley-Williams has evocatively illuminated this brilliant polymath who laid the foundations of modern European science.'- Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge'Fascinating . . . an impressive piece of schol ...Show more
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Category: Nature
Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, -Spectator. 'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' – Literary Review. Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Chris ...Show more
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Category: Science
The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Periodic Tales by Hugh Andersey-Williams, packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information about the building blocks of our universe. Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, ...Show more
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Category: Biography
A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st centur ...Show more
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Category: Nature
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Tide The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Category: Nature
From Cnut to D-Day: the history and science of the ever-powerful tide explored for the first time Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. On our little island, we live surrounded by water and love to be beside the seaside. But it rises and falls according to ...Show more
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