Horizons
A Global History of Science
James Poskett
- 'Superb'
- Sunday
- Times
'Revolutionary'
- Alice
- Roberts
'Hugely
- important'
- Jim
- Al-Khalili_______________A
- radical
- retelling
- of
- the
- history
- of
- science
- that
- foregrounds
- the
- scientists
- erased
- from
- historyIn
- this
- major
- retelling
- of
- the
- history
- of
- science
- from
- 1450
- to
- the
- present
- day,
- James
- Poskett
- explodes
- the
- myth
- that
- science
- began
- in
- Europe.The
- blinkered
- Western
- gaze
- focusing
- on
- individual
- 'genius'
- -
- Copernicus,
- Newton,
- Darwin,
- Einstein
- -
- was
- only
- one
- part
- of
- the
- story.
- The
- reality
- was
- an
- utterly
- global,
- non-linear
- pattern
- of
- cross-fertilization,
- competition,
- cooperation
- and
- outright
- conflict.
- Each
- rupture
- in
- history
- carved
- fresh
- channels
- for
- global
- exchange.Here,
- for
- the
- first
- time,
- Poskett
- celebrates
- how
- scientists
- from
- Africa,
- America,
- Asia
- and
- the
- Pacific
- were
- integral
- to
- this
- very
- human
- story.
- We
- meet
- Graman
- Kwasi,
- the
- African
- botanist
- who
- discovered
- a
- new
- cure
- for
- malaria;
- Hantaro
- Nagaoka,
- the
- Japanese
- scientist
- who
- first
- described
- the
- structure
- of
- the
- atom;
- and
- Zhao
- Zhongyao,
- the
- Chinese
- physicist
- who
- discovered
- antimatter._______________'Remarkable.
- Challenges
- almost
- everything
- we
- know
- about
- science
- in
- the
- West'
- Jerry
- Brotton,
- author
- of
- A
- History
- of
- the
- World
- in
- 12
- Maps'Perspective-shattering'
- Caroline
- Sanderson,
- The
- Bookseller,
- 'Editor's
- Choice''Horizons
- upends
- traditional
- accounts
- of
- the
- history
- of
- science'
- Rebecca
- Wragg
- Sykes,
- author
- of
- Kindred'Poskett
- deftly
- blends
- the
- achievements
- of
- little-known
- figures
- into
- the
- wider
- history
- of
- science
- .
- .
- .
- brims
- with
- clarity'
- Chris
- Allnutt,
- Financial Times
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