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Atom by Piers Bizony
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Icon Science
Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom’s discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself. John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Er ...Show more
Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum
$24.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Icon Science Ser.
Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brillia ...Show more
Sex, Botany and Empire : The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks by Patricia Fara
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Icon Science
When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. Was the pursuit of scientific truth re ...Show more
The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition by Claire Brock
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: Icon Science
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific and popu ...Show more
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