Ahead of the Curve: Volume 2

Ahead of the Curve: Volume 2The popular conception of science is of a steady, upward climb of progress. The reality is not that simple. Highly significant discoveries often stay unrecognized for decades, particularly if they conflict with the current paradigm or extend it in ways hard to imagine at the time. Ahead of the Curve: Hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences is a fascinating collection of lost research that the editors believe are important scientific contributions.

7 b/w illus

Aristotle’s Politics in the Dialogi della morale filosofia of Antonio Brucioli (pp

who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison

and geometrical orientation arguments

Includes results from the New Horizons flyby of Pluto

Christian epigraphy in the Kharga Oasis

A collection of papers from a workshop focusing on the “Final Palaeolithic of the Great European Plain”

dry season conditions may become too severe for cocoa growing

The way that money works now is a blip

These were the French exile libellistes who flocked to London to publish scandalous or sexually salacious pamphlets in the hope of extorting lavish suppression fees

It includes chapters on quantum computation and cryptography

and the exhibition on which it is based