"This mind-blowing illustrated collection showcases hundreds of tattoos dedicated to numerous scientific arenas, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and astrophysics, with a brief note from each inked individual highlighting the reasons for selecting the tattoo. Best of all, each example is a leaping-off point for best-selling science essayist and lecturer Zimmer to muse about the subject, whether it's the importance of a tattoo of Darwin's finches or the significance of the uranium atom inked into the chest of a young radiologist"--

"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged"--Amazon.com ; Presents a commentary on the history of science that examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing realms of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy