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  • The Winding Trail to Newton's Principia Mathematica

    by Jed Z. Buchwald, Mordechai Feingold ...
    An intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century masterwork that set down the laws of motion and universal gravitation and ushered in modern physicsLong regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science, Isaac Newton’s Principia laid the mathematical foundations of classical mechanics, planetary motion, and the laws of gravity. Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold trace the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Riddle of the Rosetta

    How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

    by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz ...
    A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Zodiac of Paris

    How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science

    by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz ...
    The clash of faith and science in Napoleonic FranceThe Dendera zodiac—an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets—was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. Brought to Paris in 1821 and ultimately installed in the Louvre, where it can still be seen ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

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    The Riddle of the Rosetta

    How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

    by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 27 min

    In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology—that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere

    Edited by Jed Buchwald, Larry Stewart ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science. Expanding on Levere’s many themes and interests, The Romance of Science assembles historians of ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • A Master of Science History

    Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie

    Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders. ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and early 20th century Germany and Britain

    In 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain

    Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first three contributions concern optics and industry in 19th century Germany; the fourth concerns electric standards in Germany during the same period; the last essay in the volume examines a curious development in the early ... Read more

    $64.29 CAD

  • Newton and the Origin of Civilization

    by Mordechai Feingold, Jed Z. Buchwald ...
    Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's by a millennium. Newton and the Origin of Civilization tells the story of how one of the most ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Einstein Was Right

    The Science and History of Gravitational Waves

    by Alessandra Buonanno, Harry Collins, Don Howard, Tilman Sauer, Barry C. Barish, Daniel Kennefick, Jürgen Renn, Kip S. Thorne, Diana Kormos Buchwald ...
    An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational wavesIn 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by the movement of large masses—as part of the theory of general relativity. A century later, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed Einstein's ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • An Imam in Paris

    Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

    by Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi ...
    Translated by Daniel L. Newman ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    In the 1820s, Rifa`a Rafi` al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European thought, introducing ... Read more

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  • Cracking the Egyptian Code

    The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts--ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic--would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia. More than twenty years later a remarkably gifted Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Egyptian Oedipus

    Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

    by Daniel Stolzenberg ...
    An examination of the unique, baroque-era, German Jesuit scholar, Egyptologist, polymath, and prolific author and his studies.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, numerology, geology, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus