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Bestselling author Dolnick (The Rescue Artist) focuses on the 17th century and the giants of early science—Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and particularly Newton and Leibniz, whose independent invention ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Edward Dolnick is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2011 Speech as a Chief Writer for Science in the Boston Globe. Most common ...

Presented for the first time in popular form is the fascinating true story of the search for the phantom planet Vulcan. As with legends of "the lost continent of Atlantis," scientists and dreamers ...

Is life (the universe and everything) just a series of predictable events, a chain of physics problems stringing all the way back to the Big Bang?... Last week I wrote about free will, or whether we ...