From medicine and music to shipping, cinema, and science, modern Greeks have left a remarkable mark on the world.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...

More engagement with the tools of philosophy might have helped the author shore up the position of science. (Courtesy: Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library) Why did Newton’s laws take the form ...

What if everything we're taught about the history of astronomy and physics is wrong? In his new book, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022), James Poskett, a historian ...

Cet article est extrait du mensuel Sciences et Avenir n°947, daté janvier 2026. Pascal Duris est professeur d'épistémologie et d'histoire des sciences à l'université de Bordeaux. Il a publié notamment ...

"Les origines de la science moderne" d'Albert Dufourcq est un ouvrage captivant qui explore les fondements de la pensée scientifique telle que nous la connaissons aujourd'hui. Publié initialement en ...

IN a number of short essays, the author of this little volume has succeeded in giving a general account of modern ideas bearing on the physics of the globe. There is no attempt at detailed treatment, ...