As part of a recognition effort begun on the 300th anniversary of his death, British science historian/television science show host Chapman traces Hooke's life and prodigious career.

England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution

Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

and also, the author is Elonka's cousin!

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

"A Thread Across the Ocean" is about an achievement that seems archaic in these Internet days: the laying of the first telegraph cables between Europe and North America, completed in 1866. But it's still apt. We have become so accustomed to the technology that supports our lives that we've forgotten how difficult that structure was to build. This book reminds us, excruciatingly, agonizingly, unforgettably.

'A Thread Across the Ocean': The (Telegraph) Cable Guy