'Superb' Sunday Times 'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts 'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili
_______________ A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists
erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present
day James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe. The blinkered Western gaze
focusing on individual 'genius' - Copernicus Newton Darwin Einstein - was only one part of
the story. The reality was an utterly global non-linear pattern of cross-fertilization
competition cooperation and outright conflict. Each rupture in history carved fresh channels
for global exchange. Here for the first time Poskett celebrates how scientists from Africa
America Asia and the Pacific were integral to this very human story. We meet Graman Kwasi the
African botanist who discovered a new cure for malaria Hantaro Nagaoka the Japanese scientist
who first described the structure of the atom and Zhao Zhongyao the Chinese physicist who
discovered antimatter. _______________ 'Remarkable. Challenges almost everything we know about
science in the West' Jerry Brotton author of A History of the World in 12 Maps
'Perspective-shattering' Caroline Sanderson The Bookseller 'Editor's Choice' 'Horizons upends
traditional accounts of the history of science' Rebecca Wragg Sykes author of Kindred 'Poskett
deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider history of science . . .
brims with clarity' Chris Allnutt Financial Times
