Uma História da Ciência

by Michael Mosley, John Lynch, Ivan Weisz Kuck (Translator)

Redes de comunicacao, exames medicos sofisticados, fontes energeticas, tecnicas para cultivo do solo e a producao de alimentos nada do que hoje fazemos esta intocado pelo saber cientifico. Com belas ilustracoes, este e um guia perfeito para nos orientar num incrivel percurso pela historia das grandes descobertas cientificas no Ocidente como a teoria da evolucao, a criacao dos telescopios e a descoberta do DNA e sua enorme relevancia na vida atual. Os premiados autores Michael Mosley e John Lynch questionam muitas de nossas conviccoes, ajudando a tornar compreensiveis teorias aparentemente dificeis e seus resultados surpreendentes.

Um relato fascinante, que tem origem na famosa serie de televisao da BBC, que mostra como todas as areas do conhecimento, da Antiguidade aos dias atuais, progridem quando pensadores empenhados se deparam com novas ferramentas e saberes.

Genres: Science

292 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Michael Mosley was a British television journalist, producer, and presenter who worked for the BBC (amongst other broadcasters) from 1985 until his death in 2024. He was probably best known as a presenter of television documentaries on biology and medicine, and his regular appearances on The One Show.

Born in Kolkata, India, the son of a bank director, Mosley studied philosophy, politics and economics at New College, Oxford, before working for two years as a banker in the City of London. He then decided to move into medicine, intending to become a psychiatrist, studying at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (now part of UCL Medical School).

Becoming disillusioned by psychiatry, upon graduation Mosley joined a trainee assistant producer scheme at the BBC in 1985. Since then he produced and presented many documentaries on science and/or medicine. He was an advocate of intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets who wrote books promoting the ketogenic diet.

Mosley died on the Greek island of Symi on 5 June 2024.