'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
