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John Gribbin
John Gribbin (born 1946)

physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer, journalist

  • University of Sussex, University of Cambridge

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Fitzroy
He knew he was right
Q is for quantum
The science of Philip Pullman's His dark materials
Richard Feynman
In search of SUSY
Companion to the cosmos
The Omega Point
Fire on Earth
Hyperspace
Hothouse earth
In the beginning
Alone in the universe
Stuff of the universe
Schrödinger's kittens and the search for reality
The little book of science
Unveiling the edge of time
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Timewarps
In search of the big bang
Time & space
In search of the double helix
ANALOG ANNUAL
Almost everyone's guide to science
The birth of time
Origins
The Scientists
Galaxies
The Origins of the Future
Blinded by the light
Future Worlds
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag
The scientists
The Fellowship
In search of the edge of time
Science
Weather
The origins of the future
Annus mirabilis
The case of the missing neutrinos
The human genome
The death of the Sun
Our changing universe
Spacewarps
The reason why
Ragnarok
Deep Simplicity
Time and Space
The Birth of Time
FELLOWSHIP: THE STORY OF A REVOLUTION
Curie (1867-1934) in 90 minutes
The pocket Darwin
Space
Hothouse earth
Astronomy for the amateur
The monkey puzzle
The monkey puzzle
The strangest star
The Jupiter effect
On physics
Children of the ice
Quantum Physics
Ben Bova Presents Father to the Man
Companion to the Cosmos
Forecasts, famines and freezes
Inventing the Future
El Pequeño Libro De La Ciencia (Paidos Asterisco)
Weather force
Hothouse Earth
Future weather and the greenhouse effect
Timewarps
The universe
Stardust
Future weather
XTL
Birth of Time, The
Spacewarps
Deep simplicity
Father to the Man
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
The Hole In The Sky
Watching the weather
Eyewitness Science
Empire of the sun
The Future of Cosmology
The hole in the sky
Stardust
Our changing planet
The fellowship Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the story of a scientific revolution
Watching the Universe
Get a Grip on Physics
Science
The digital revolution
Halley (1656-1742) in 90 minutes
Double planet
In search of the double helix
Winds of change
In Search of the Big Bang
In search of Schrödinger's cat
Op Zoek naar Schrödingers Kat
Schrödinger's kittens and the search for reality
HOW FAR IS UP?: MEASURING THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE
Deep simplicity
The fellowship
Double Planet
Richard Feynman
The Fellowship
The omega point
Der Weltraum. Von Urknall, Schwarzen Löchern und fremden Welten. Bildband aus der BBC Edition
This shaking earth
Galaxy formation
Asi de Simple
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Genesis
Darwin
Space
Weather force
Ice Age
Future worlds
Quantum Physics: A Beginner's Guide to the Subatomic World
The fellowship
The hole in the sky
Time and space
Climatic threat
OUR CHANGING PLANET
Future weather and the greenhouse effect
Time Travel
Diccionario del Cosmos
The Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Scientists
Get a Grip on New Physics
The Redundant Male
Our Changing Universe
Blinded by the Light
Climate and mankind
Get a grip on physics
Just look at... weather
Schrödingers Kätzchen und die Suche nach der Wirklichkeit
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
Historia de La Ciencia 1543-2001
La terre-serre
Carbon Dioxide, Climate and Man
Deep Simplicity
In Search of the Edge of Time
In Search of Superstrings
The Hole In The Sky; Man's Threat to the Ozone Layer (New Sciences)
Father to the man
In search of the big bang
Empire of the Sun
You Are Made of Stardust
White holes
Cosmos An Illustrated Guide to Our Solar System and the Universe
The Jupiter effect
Nuestro Universo
Science
Wissenschaft für die Westentasche
The first chimpanzee
The Jupiter effect reconsidered
The one per cent advantage
Quantum Physics
Innervisions
Le Chat de Schrödinger
Ice age
The Omega Point
Jupiter Effect
Stardust
Weather force
Richard Feynman
Schrödinger's kittens
Our changing climate
FITZROY: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF DARWIN'S CAPTAIN AND THE INVENTION OF THE WEATHER FORECAST
El Nacimiento Del Tiempo
Reunion
In search of the multiverse
Spacewarps
Darwin (1809-1882) in 90 minutes
Being human
Fisica Cuantica
Forcast Famine Frz
In the Beginning
Big numbers
In the beginning
DEEP SIMPLICITY: CHAOS, COMPLEXITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE
Genesis
Time and the Universe
Beyond the Jupiter effect
The strangest star
A Brief History of Science
Galileo (1564-1642) in 90 minutes
Mendel (1822-1884) in 90 minutes
Our changing planet
The Jupiter effect
Dazzling discoveries
Genesis
Father to the Man Uk
IN SEARCH OF SUPERSTRINGS: SYMMETRY, MEMBRANES AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Faraday (1791-1867) in 90 minutes
Newton (1642-1727) in 90 minutes
In search of the multiverse
Evolution
Em Busca de Susy
Big Numbers
The strangest star
Time Warps
Innervisions (Roc)
Science for Everyone
En Busca de Susy
Big Bang
The matter myth
The expanding universe
The stuff of the universe
Watching the Weather
Flower hunters
In search of Schro dinger's cat
Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
XTL
Unveiling the edge of time
Too Hot to Handle?
Fire on Earth
Ben Bova presents
Ragnarok
Men Who Measured the Universe
Stardust
Planeta duplo
FitzRoy
Being Human
Auf dem Weg zur Weltformel.
Ice Age
En busca de la frontera del tiempo
Cosmology
Reunion
Weather j Gribbin/m Kelly
Double Planet
Children's History of Science
Being Human
Fire on Earth
Newton (1642-1727) in 90 minutes
Auf der Suche nach Schrödingers Katze
Fire on earth
How the brain works
Ross J. Anderson
Ross J. Anderson (1956-2024)

cryptographer, mathematician, computer scientist

  • University of Cambridge

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The Quality of Mercy
The Forgotten Front
Turner Brooks
The diversions of keramos
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Information Hiding
The Battle of Tanga, 1914 (Battles and Campaigns)
Cul Es El Mensaje Del Libro De Mormn Una Gua Cristiana Y Breve Al Libro Sangrado De Los Mormones
Global Internet Trust Register
Personal Medical Information Security, Engineering, and Ethics
Fast Software Encryption: Cambridge Security Workshop Cambridge, U.K., December 9-11, 1993
A Brush With Shakespeare
Brian May
Brian May (born 1947)

guitarist, astrophysicist, singer, composer, pianist, television presenter, record producer, actor, physicist, research fellow, YouTuber, lyricist

  • Imperial College London, University of London

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Queen in 3-D
Crinoline
Diableries
The Poor Man's Picture Gallery
A Village Lost And Found
The modernist as pragmatist
Understanding Russia
How to Make the Most of Your Tractor
Extravagant postcolonialism
Bang!
Guitar Styles
Indonesian Tragedy
Interactive Japanese Bk. 1
"Queen"
Russell McCormmach
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)

historian, physicist

  • Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University

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Speculative Truth
Intellectual mastery of nature
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Weighing The World The Reverend John Michell Of Thornhill
The Personality of Henry Cavendish Profile of a Historian of Science Archimedes
Historical studies in the physical sciences
The Second Physicist
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences)
Historical studies in the physical sciences
H Study 1970 V2
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Third Annual Volume 1971. Volume 3
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Power lines
Weighing the World
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 7
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6
Historical studies in the physical sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 5
Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Intellectual Mastery of Nature - Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake (born 1986)

biologist

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Entangled Life
Kinship
Entangled Life : the Illustrated Edition
Verweven leven
La red oculta de la vida
A trama da vida
John P. Clark
John P. Clark (born 1944)

social scientist, philosopher, ecologist

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William Godwin
The Impossible Community
The philosophical anarchism of William Godwin
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity
Between Earth and Empire
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts
Social control in the People's Republic of China
Max Stirner's egoism
The anarchist moment
Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Theft by employees in work organizations
Comment un anarchiste a découvert la Terre
Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas (1943-2016)

political scientist

  • University of Manchester, Harvard University

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx and the Anarchists
Culture and the State
Alien politics
Rational choice Marxism
Marxism and Scientific Socialism
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, engineer, astronomer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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Charles Babbage
The works of Charles Babbage
The economy of machinery and manufactures
The exposition of 1851
Decline of Science in England
Testt
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000
Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
Examples of the solutions of functional equations
The analytical engine and mechanical notation
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Abstract of a paper entitled Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
Science and reform
Passages from the life of a philisopher
Memoirs of the Analytical Society
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 9
Demonstration of a theorem relating to prime numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 3
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 5
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 10
Abstract of a Paper entitled. Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
The history of science and technology
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1
Geometry and Faith: A Fragmentary Supplement to the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 2
How to invent machinery
A letter to sir Humphry Davy, Bart. president of the Royal Society, etc. etc. on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables
Observations on the measurement of heights by the barometer
On the theoretical principles of the machinery for calculating tables
Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and of art
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
On machinery for calculating and printing mathematical tables
Babbage's occulting telegraph
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 8
Report of the Committee, appointed by the Council of the Royal Society, to consider the subject refferd to in Mr. Stewart' Letter, relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine, and to report thereupon / [I.T.W. Herschel]
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
Memoir of the life and labours of Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 11
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance. By Charles Babbage ..
On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
Preussens Deutsche Politik und Ihre Gegner
On the application of analysis to the discovery of local theorems and porisms. By Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 6
Babbage's Calculating Engines
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
The Exposition of Eighteen Fifty-One
Tables of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
The difference engine and table making
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Exposition Of 1851
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 4
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and art / by Charles Babbage
A chapter on street nuisances
Mathematical papers
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance
La macchina analitica
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. a Fragment
Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis. By Charles Babbage ..
Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli Near Naples; With an Attempt to Explain the Causes of the Frequent Elevation and Depression of Large ... Prove That Those Causes Continue in Action at
Laws of mechanical notation (for consideration) / [C. Babbage]
Scientific and miscellaneous papers
Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation. By C. Babbage ... and J. F. W. Herschel ..
The Exposition of 1851
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Barometrical observations made at the fall of the Staubbach
Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society relating to the report of the Committee on Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine. February 12, 1829
On currency, on a new system of manufacturing, andon the effet of machinery on human labour
Observations on the discovery in various localities of the remains of human art
Specimen of logarithmic tables printed with different coloured inks on variously coloured papers
Essay on General Principles Which Regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures
A letter to T.P. Courtenay, on the proportionate number of births of the two sexes under different circumstances
Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 7
Scientific and miscellaneous papers II
Thoughts on the principles of taxation
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Of the constants of nature
A chapter on street nuisances
Charles Babbage on the principles and development of the calculator
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers
The Exposition of 1851
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
On the influence of signs in mathematical reasoning
An analysis of the statistics of the Clearing House during the year 1839
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Observations addressed at the last anniversary, to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the medals
Scientific and miscellaneous papers I.
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England