
Antoine–Laurent Lavoisier and the myth of phlogiston
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that take a closer look at some…
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that take a closer look at some…
Robert Boyle was fascinated by the world and he spent his life trying to explain why things are…
History is rife with examples of persecuted scientists—think Rhazes, Galileo, and Servetus, for starters—but it would be a…
Who discovered the atom? Nowadays it’s completely unremarkable to hear someone talk about atoms, but before John Dalton’s…
If you could turn your aluminium Coca-Cola can into gold, would you? You probably would, but if everybody could do it,…
There are few things more rewarding than completing a difficult jigsaw puzzle. Alfred Wegener was a prominent scientist and…
Albert Einstein is a name that most people recognise, but did you know that Albert was a big…