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“The story of scientific progress from the invention of the wheel to the 21st-century climate solutions. It captures every key moment of discovery, and shows how the concepts, the inventions, and the individuals behind them have changed our world”--Back cover
Table of contents includes: The dawn of science: prehistory to 1500 -- Renaissance & enlightenment: 1500-1700 -- The industrial revolution: 1700-1890 -- The atomic age: 1890-1970 -- The information age: 1970 onwards