From the May 2018 Issue Bird Man The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist By Tim Birkhead LR
From the October 2017 Issue Clean Bill of Health The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine By Lindsey Fitzharris LR
From the October 2015 Issue What Tycho Brahe Saw The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution By David Wootton LR
From the June 2015 Issue Cloud Atlases The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future By Peter Moore
From the April 2015 Issue God in the Machine To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science By Steven Weinberg LR
From the August 2014 Issue Collecting Cuttlefish on Lesbos The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science By Armand Marie Leroi LR
From the October 2008 Issue Watchers of the Skies The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science By Richard Holmes LR
From the February 2008 Issue A Storehouse of Ideas Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum By Richard Fortey LR
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