• 13-digit ISBN: 978-184-379-647-3
• Barcode: 9781843796473
• Approximate length: 44,000 words
• Formats: iPad/iPhone, Kindle, Nook, Kobo

‘This is the foundation of all: that we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover what nature does, or may be made to do.’

Thus did Francis Bacon, early in the 17th century, outline the future of science and technology. This drive for knowledge and power has now given us a world dominated by science, and this text tells the story of how we have arrived there. The achievements of the great scientific thinkers of the ages—Copernicus, Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein, Freud, Hubble and many more—are explained and woven together into an exciting story of intellectual discovery, but a story in which a sense of the mystery of the universe is always present.

About the Author

Peter Whitfield is the author of more than a dozen works of history and literary criticism, including English Poetry: a New Illustrated History and A Universe of Books: Readings in World Literature. For Naxos Audiobooks he has also written The Story of the Bible, The History of Western Art and The History of English Poetry. He has also published three collections of his own poetry.