★Co-authored by 7 science communication experts, it breaks away from traditional heroic narratives, focuses on overlooked scientific contributions, and reconstructs the history of science from diverse perspectives, balancing professionalism and subversiveness.
★Exposes gender bias and knowledge discrimination in the history of science, highlighting marginalized groups and content such as women scientists and folk knowledge, aligning with the rising focus on diverse narratives.
★Spanning prehistoric technologies, astronomical calculations, medical methods, and other fields, it uses specific cases to break down artificial knowledge hierarchies, allowing readers to see the complex and diverse face of scientific history.

The history of science is a collective tapestry woven from diverse knowledge, where every thread matters—including those we have ignored for far too long.

This book transforms our understanding of the history of science by revealing it not as a linear accumulation of heroic individual discoveries, but as a collective fabric of diverse knowledge where every thread is crucial, including those we have long overlooked.

From Darwin receiving a letter from Antoinette Brown questioning his theories to Katherine Johnson calculating the trajectories that would take humans to the Moon, official narratives have consistently downplayed numerous contributions to scientific progress; what has been obscured is not only individual names but entire knowledge systems deemed “minor” for their association with femininity. Why do we not value the survival technologies that enabled the continuation of the human species with the same enthusiasm as we do weapons? How is it possible that the Harvard “computers” revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos without ever looking through a telescope? Why is the narrative of scientific fraud almost exclusively framed in masculine terms when female scientists can also cheat?

This collective work is co-authored by seven science communication experts—Elena Lázaro, Marga Sánchez Romero, Enriqueta Barranco, Susana Escudero, Rocío Benavente, Natalia Ruiz, and Clara Grima—and illustrated by Cirenia Arias. It challenges established narratives with a disruptive approach: telling the history of science from perspectives that have traditionally been excluded.

From prehistoric textile techniques to women who measured stars for meager pay; from contraceptive methods developed based on the knowledge of Mexican peasants to human zoos that exhibited “exotic specimens”; from the pain of childbirth depicted in medieval art to the equations that enabled humanity to conquer other worlds.

This work reconstructs the history of scientific knowledge without artificial hierarchies, demonstrating that science was never a monologue but a complex human conversation, with many voices deliberately excluded from the record.