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Print Price: $52.50

Format:
Hardback
432 pp.
93 colour illustrations & 46 b/w illustrations, 189 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199663279

Publication date:
June 2017

Imprint: OUP UK

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science

Edited by Iwan Rhys Morus

Series : Oxford Illustrated Histories

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond.

The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from the exchanges between Islamic and Christian scholars in the Middle Ages to the Chinese invention of gunpowder, paper, and the printing press; from the Scientific Revolution of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century.

The chapters that follow focus on the increasingly specialized story of science since end of the eighteenth century, covering experimental science in the laboratory from Michael Faraday to CERN; the exploration of nature, from intrepid Victorian explorers to twentieth century primatologists; the mapping of the universe, from the discovery of Uranus to Big Bang theory; the impact of evolutionary ideas, from Lamarck, Darwin, and Wallace to DNA; and the story of theoretical physics, from James Clark Maxwell to Quantum Theory and beyond. A concluding chapter reflects on how scientists have communicated their work to a wider public, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the internet in the early twenty-first century.

Readership : All those interested in the history of science and its development, from earliest times up to the 21st century.

Iwan Rhys Morus: Introduction
1. James Evans: Science in the Ancient Mediterranean World
2. Donald Harper: Science in Ancient China
3. Sonja Brentjes: Medieval Science in the West and Middle East
4. Dagmar Schaefer: Science in the Medieval East
5. John Henry: The Scientific Revolution
6. Jan Golinski: Enlightenment Science
7. Iwan Rhys Morus: Experimental Cultures
8. Amanda Rees: Exploring Nature
9. Robert Smith: Mapping the Universe
10. Peter Bowler: The Meaning of Life
11. Matthew Stanley: Theoretical Visions
12. Charlotte Sleigh: Communicating Nature
Further Reading
Index

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Iwan Rhys Morus first developed his interest in the history of science whilst studying natural sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of History at Aberystwyth University and is the author of a number of books in the history of science, including Frankenstein's Children (1998), When Physics Became King (2005) and Shocking Bodies (2011). He is married with three children.

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Special Features

Highlights the historical origins of the key institutions that define modern science and introduces readers to the fruits of new research and new approaches to the history of science that have transformed the way historians of science think about their subject.
Presents a strong and coherent narrative about the place of human efforts to understand nature that will inform and entertain its readers.
Each chapter is written by experts who are actively engaged in research whilst also being written engagingly for a broad readership. It combines authority with readability.
Contains a large number of illustrations and are central to the book's narrative and actively underline the material and human culture of science.