Poskett explains modern science through the global convergence wrought by colonialism. In the 1570s, for instance, the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún compiled a massive description of Mexico on the ...

The book is part history, in explaining how these different ... It also examines influential individuals in modern science. Some of the material may be dated, but the prose remains an elegant ...

Throughout history, disease has defined the human experience. In particular—and especially before the development of modern science and germ ... lives of others. Each book on this list dives ...

Two of the largest branches of modern science and technology were ... which include print books, documents, artifacts, photographs, films, digital resources, fine art, and oral history interviews. The ...

people in western countries have been educated to believe that the history of modern science began primarily in the 17th century in western Europe. In a book of breathtaking range and quality ...

The Birth of Modern Science It was in the 17th ... out the time-scale of some of the major events in Earth history and developments in science and technology. It shows something of the parallel ...

In our “modern world” in the 21 st Century ... Eicher is Editor of Astronomy Magazine and the author of 26 books on history and science.