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.