Explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. This title offers different episodes that show how a stone falling from the sky near this same coast changed the minds of all the natural philosophers of Europe; and how a new science was born on the top of the tower of York Minster.
Explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. This title offers different episodes that show ho...
A fresh look at the decades when British ingenuity and technological innovation changed the course of human history and ushered in the modern world. In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's...
A fresh look at the decades when British ingenuity and technological innovation changed the course of human history and ushered in the modern world.
Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.
Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840...
