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A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history

 

In 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.

 

 

 

An important milestone

 

BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, ON MATERIALS OF THE MIND

The freshest history of the strangest science

 

ALISON BASHFORD, AUTHOR OF GLOBAL POPULATION, ON MATERIALS OF THE MIND

Ambitious, riveting, Poskett tracks the global in so many senses . . . vital reading on some of the most urgent concerns facing the world history of science

 

SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, ON MATERIALS OF THE MIND

Terrific . . . [Makes] a substantial contribution to understanding the universalizing properties of science and technology in history

 

JANET BROWNE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ON MATERIALS OF THE MIND

This is the kind of history we need: it opens our eyes to the ways in which what we know today has been uncovered thanks to a worldwide team effort

 

MICHAEL SCOTT, AUTHOR OF ANCIENT WORLDS...