Eureka!: The Birth of Science

An exploration of the eruption of scientific activity in the Ancient Greek world

This book tells the incredible story of the birth of a whole new field of science called Astrobiology. In the 1990's, powerful new ground - based telescopes plus space telescopes placed in orbits high above earth's atmosphere allowed astronomers to begin discovering that our sun is not the only star ...

An insight into the world of science in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Europe, through the prism of Mary Shelley's seminal novel.