The Story of Measurement by Andrew Robinson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science
New from the author of the highly successful "The Story of Writing", here is the first fully illustrated guide to the human passion for measurement - of ourselves, our experiences, our surroundings and the universe - published at a time of great interest in popular science titles. Answering many of the ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shap ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science
"The longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day in the 18th century. It meant that, unable to measure their longitude, sailors were lost as soon as they lost sight of land. This book tells the story of John Harrison, an Englishman who imagined a mechanical solution.
The Victorian Internet - The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage
$38.50 AUD
Category: Science
A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses--the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.The Victorian Inter ...Show more