In the previous edition, we focused on the European Renaissance and examined how Islamic astronomers influenced science to evolve in this direction. In this edition we cover the works of Brahe, Kepler ...

Anyone who has opened Google Scholar at least once will have come across that evocative phrase under the search bar: “stand on the shoulders of giants”. It is not just a slogan, it is a tribute to ...

When humanity first started studying motion, circles posed a peculiar puzzle. Why do planets sweep endlessly around the Sun without flying off into the void of space? Why does a stone swung on a ...

THE idea upon which this book is constructed is an admirable one. By means of extracts and translations from the writings of great philosophers and investigators, a panorama of scientific history is ...

THE greater part of this book consists of réchauffées articles from Good Words and other publications. At the present day there is a large public curious to know biographical details, so no doubt the ...

Nicole Appel’s “Patchwork Portraits” are a form of non-traditional portraiture that represent people not as their faces but as the things that they like or care about. She is what’s known as an ...

THE SLEEPWALKERS (624 pp.)—Arthur Koestler—Macmillan ($6.50). Arthur Koestler, 53, is an ex-rebel without a cause. In the ‘305, he was a Communist; in the ’40s and well into the ’50s, a trenchant ...