Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how scie

Stretching from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 to the state of affairs in America in the year 2000, these timetables present a panoramic perspectiv

Year by year, era by era, a record of how science has altered human life, from prehistory to the present. Who discovered the Gulf Stream? Where was cloth first