Agnes Mary Clerke

and the rise of astrophysics

Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in the English- speaking world. The biography of ...

Darwin

a very short introduction

Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value of Darwin's ...

Los Bernoulli

Geómetras y viajeros

Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science

Autobiografía y escritos científicos

Einstein consiguió lo que sólo unos pocos antes que él (Newton, Darwin, Freud) lograron: modificar radicalmente la manera en que sus contemporáneos contemplaban el mundo. A partir de Einstein fue -es- preciso mirar a nuestro entorno, al movimiento de los objetos físicos, al universo, al ...