Accompanying a landmark BBC television series, "Science Story" traces the breakthroughs in every area of science from classical times to today. Throughout, the award-winning authors show us the big historical picture too. Great science happens when brilliant minds collide with new discoveries and tools at specific points in time. These intriguing and sometimes quirky insights are summarized in unique 'Connections' diagrams throughout the book. And we see the powerful and poignant human stories behind the discoveries. Scientists have always struggled against prejudice and closed minds - often their own. It takes a great deal of evidence to shift our world view. Challenging many of our assumptions about the history of science this is the perfect guide to where science has come from and why it is so vital today.
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Michael Mosley's background is fascinatingly diverse. After studying politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University, he worked for two years as a banker in the City of London. He then left to study medicine, before becoming a producer and presenter of science programmes for the BBC. Following his work on an award-winning documentary first broadcast in 1994, which revealed a proposed link between Helicobacter pylori and gastric ulcers, the British Medical Association gave Michael a gold award and the title of Medical Journalist of the Year. John Lynch, the Head of Science at the BBC, is an award-winning producer, director and author. As a producer and director he made several television series, covering everything from the eruption of Mount St Helens to the Nobel prize-winning discovery of buckminsterfullerene and the dinosaur-hunting expeditions in the Gobi Desert. He was the executive producer of the BBC's international hit 'Walking With Dinosaurs', netting a BAFTA and an Emmy in the process. He has also written the books Wild Weather, Walking With Cavemen and Earth: The Power Of The Planet, which accompanied their respective BBC television series.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. K. Akram
Format:Hardcover
I watched the second episode of History of Science (matter) on Tuesday and today saw this book by chance at WH Smith. I had a flick through during my lunch hour and was pleasantly suprised to see that this is much much more than the TV series. The book goes into far more depth. In the section on Newton it covers his famous F=ma formula as well as pages from the original books, including reproductions of Galileo's drawings of the moon. Absolutely superb in every way, would give this 6 stars if I could. I'm ordering on Amazon today!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By D E Barker
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I'm afraid I'm not so gung-ho as your previous reviewer. I think the book is poorly produced. The information is cramped, and the boxed presentations are too brief to be very enlightening. There are plenty of other places where you can find the information mentioned by the previous reviewer (for instance, Newton's Laws of Motion). I would suggest that potential readers buy these books instead. All-in-all it is a shame that the BBC is producing such second rate printed materials to accompany its science series. The series needed to be presented in a far better format to do the subject justice.
By W. Chung
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A wonderfully easy read and informative of science history, great read, loving it, after viewing the TV series, ideal to read this for more substantial information.
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