Albert Einstein

a biography

A comprehensive biography of one of the most revolutionary scientists of all time Albert Einstein remains one of most famous scientists in world history. His image is instantly recognizable and for many people, Einstein personifies genius. But who was Einstein really? What was he like ...

Strabos's cultural geography

the making of a Kolossourgia

Strabo of Amasia, a Greek geographer of the Augusto-Tiberian period, observed the Roman world of his time. He collected his observations in his magnum opus, the Geography, which he described as a 'Kolossourgia', a colossal statue of a work. This term reflects not only the ...

Hawking y la mente de Dios

Stephen Hawking ha logrado una posición única en la cultura contemporánea, combinando la eminencia en el mundo extraño de la física teórica con la popular fama reservada a las estrellas de cine y a los músicos de rock. Aún así, tanto por su alcance conceptual ...

En el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

memorias de un biólogo heterodoxo, Tomo II

Legendre

la honestidad de un científico

The Cambridge companion to Newton

El descubrimiento de la naturaleza

Humboldt

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 ...