HORIZONS

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