science, renaissance

A biography of Leonardo da Vinci focusing on his scientific rather than his artistic work.

Retraces the story of when Poggio Bracciolini found Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things," during the Renaissance and how the recirculation of this poem changed history.

Describes advances in scientific knowledge that occurred during the Renaissance in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Examines the contributions early alchemists and chemists made to modern science, describing their practices, prejudices, and ideas about the natural world.

Explores the forces for change that brought the human and natural sciences together and gave them shape, presenting examples to support the author's contention that science and art comprise a range of perennially familiar practices in two largely distinct, but occasionally overlapping spheres.

Explains how the pursuit of natural philosophy from 1500 to 1700 laid the foundation upon which modern science was built, describing how dramatic social and cultural changes in Western Europe and the achievements of influential philosophers and scientists led to profound changes in how the natural world was studied.

Examines the controversies that have raged between science and the Catholic Church throughout history, focusing on the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton and the impact their discoveries had on religion.

A biography of Italian Renaissance artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci, describing his life and many works of art.

Explores how the scientific innovations of the Arabic world in the middle ages led to the European renaissance.

Draws on new evidence to argue that the Jesuits had plotted Galileo's downfall for reasons other than his beliefs about astronomy.