Science news articles about 'popular science books'

... mathematician, he went on to commission and edit some of the most popular science books of the past few decades, including Dava Sobel's Longitude and Fermat's Last Theorem by our own ...

... 19th-century astronomers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, used the daily and periodical press and popular science books to bolster support for the growth of the government-funded Observatory...

A book about the great 18th-Century innovators wins this year's Royal Society prize for popular science books.

... beauty of studying animals, especially cephalopods - squids and octopuses. He was also a writer of popular science books, essays and rigorous papers, a novelist, painter and a yachtsman. He was born ...

A history of quantum mechanics that goes beyond the point in the 1920s where most popular science books leave off.