Amazon to Zodiac

101 Scientific Curiosities Across Time and Space

Published by Prometheus
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

Discover long-lost stories of science spanning thousands of years of Life on Earth in this journey through our universe’s most peculiar properties. Amazon to Zodiac takes readers on a journey through science’s biggest, tiniest, weirdest, and wildest stories from the realms of explorers and inventors to space, evolution, myths, and more through 101 bite-sized chapters. Tour the pyramids, learn forgotten languages, re-invent the wheel, sail the seven seas, meet the dinosaurs, roam the universe, and uncover the truth beyond mysteries. Combining boundless curiosity with inexhaustible skepticism on each and every page, science writer Barry Evans collects the most fascinating tales from our natural world to show that science is not only extremely valuable, but utterly exciting as well.

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Product Details

  • Publisher: Prometheus (July 7, 2026)
  • Length: 288 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781493095612

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“Barry Evans’s playful essay collection Amazon to Zodiac addresses fascinating questions related to anthropology, engineering, history, linguistics, mathematics, and astronomy […] The book’s discussions are jovial, approaching complicated topics in an accessible, humorous manner […] Illuminating a world of possibilities, Amazon to Zodiac is an entertaining reference text that gathers pivotal ideas and events from science and history.”
 

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