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An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent...
Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg has written that "all that has happened since 1687 is a gloss on the Principia ." Now you too can appreciate the significance of this stellar work, regarded by many as the greatest scientific contribution of all...
"I almost skipped the first chapter. A bit boring, but I’m glad I didn’t. The book was fascinating. I had the paperback version without the pictures and renderings. Read it and loved it. Two weeks after finishing it, I read it again. This time taki..."
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"This book was extremely fascinating and knowledgeable. Bryson’s way of describing events as a timeline is very fun to read. Some of the language is difficult but I found myself enjoying the arcs of our world. I enjoyed how Bryson split apart each ..."
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