Superb Sunday TimesRevolutionary Alice RobertsHugely important Jim AlKhaliliA radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual genius Copernicus Newton Darwin Einstein was only one part of the story. The reality was an utterly global nonlinear pattern of crossfertilization competition cooperation and outright conflict. Each rupture in history carved fresh channels for global exchange.Here for the first time Poskett celebrates how scientists from Africa America Asia and the Pacific were integral to this very human story. We meet Graman Kwasi the African botanist who discovered a new cure for malaria Hantaro Nagaoka the Japanese scientist who first described the structure of the atom and Zhao Zhongyao the Chinese physicist who discovered antimatter.Remarkable. Challenges almost everything we know about science in the West Jerry Brotton author of A History of the World in 12 MapsPerspectiveshattering Caroline Sanderson The Bookseller Editors ChoiceHorizons upends traditional accounts of the history of science Rebecca Wragg Sykes author of KindredPoskett deftly blends the achievements of littleknown figures into the wider history of science . . . brims with clarity Chris Allnutt Financial Times