Jed Z. Buchwald

Jed Z. Buchwald's books

The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

3.28 avg rating — 50 ratings

The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science

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Newton and the Origin of Civilization

4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings

Einstein Was Right: The Science and History of Gravitational Waves

4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics (Oxford Handbooks)

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings

Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves

2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere (Archimedes, 52)

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