James Poskett: Horizons — A Global History of Science

James Poskett: Horizons — A Global History of Science
We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. Science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour.

Author James Poskett, shortlisted for the 2022 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, is Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, and author of Horizons: A Global History of Science (Penguin, 2022).

Presenting his latest book in conversation with Diarmid Finnegan, James will make us rethink all we know about the history of modern science challenging both the existing narrative and our perceptions of revered individuals.

Diarmid Finnegan is a Reader in Human Geography at Queen’s University Belfast. He writes about the history of modern science and its complex relations with wider culture, particularly in the form of religious beliefs. He is the author, most recently, of The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America (Pittsburgh, 2021).

The British Academy Book Prize is awarded annually for a non-fiction book that has made an outstanding contribution to global cultural understanding for a wider public audience. 

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