Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • Greek Biology & Greek Medicine

    Exploring the Roots of Western Medicine and Science in Ancient Greece

    In "Greek Biology & Greek Medicine," Charles Singer provides a comprehensive exploration of the foundations of biological and medical sciences as conceived in ancient Greece. This illuminating text meticulously examines the contributions of significant figures such as Hippocrates and Galen, illustrating the intricate relationship between empirical observation and philosophical inquiry prevalent in ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Medicine

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Charles Singer's A Short History of Medicine offers more than a chronology of cures: it is a clear, thoughtful account of how medicine became a scientific and humane discipline. Opening with ancient Greece, where rational healing emerged from older mixtures of magic, animism, and inherited wisdom, the book traces ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century

    This early work on scientific history is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details of the developments and pivotal moments in science from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth century. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of science. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century

    Driven by an unquenchable thirst, the human spirit seeks an explanation of the world. In this fascinating study, a noted historian of science traces the course of the ceaseless yearning for answers across two and a half millennia and chronicles, in simple form, the development of the idea of a rational and interconnected material world.This account begins with the earliest recordings of true ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • To Explain the World

    The Discovery of Modern Science

    The Nobel Prize–winner shares "a masterful journey through humankind's scientific coming-of-age" from the Greeks to modern times (Brian Greene).In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries of human striving to unravel the mysteries of the world. This sweeping saga ranges from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Zero

    The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

    de Charles Seife ...
    A New York Times Notable Book.The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Before Galileo

    The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

    de John Freely ...
    A physicist and historian sheds light on scientific minds, breakthroughs, and innovations that paved the way for the Scientific Revolution.Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, a conflict which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. As a consequence of this narrative frame, ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Sleepwalkers

    A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universeIn this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Aladdin's Lamp

    de John Freely ...
    Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Story of Western Science

    From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory

    A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Pythagoras

    His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe

    This is the story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains, Pythagoras had much the same idea - but 2,500 years earlier. Though known by many only for ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of Physical Science

    de John Cramer ...
    Why do we think matter is made of atoms and the Earth goes around the Sun? How big is the universe? Did it have a beginning or is it eternal? Is heat a fluid or just the random motion of molecules? Is light made of particles or is it a fluid or maybe something else? This book answers these questions and many more as it traces the development of the modern scientific understanding of the physical ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus