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Science tells the history of scientific discovery, from the astronomical calculations of the Ancient Greeks to Tim Berners-Lee's creation of the Internet.
Here are the men and women who gave us geometry (Euclid), printing (Gutenberg), the telescope (Galileo), dynamite (Alfred Nobel), the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell), psychoanalysis (Freud), radium (Marie Curie) and penicillin (Alexander Fleming). Weaving together biographical detail and clear descriptions of scientific discoveries, Science presents many fascinating and curiously different stories of scientific breakthrough.
Each essay within the book presents a biography of a particular scientist, relates the significance of their most important discoveries, and explains the impact these discoveries have had upon the world.
Lively and accessible, Science entertains as it informs.
If I saw furthier t^an others/ said Sir IsaacINeWtoi^, It is
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because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.'
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Fülszöveg
Science tells the history of scientific discovery, from the astronomical calculations of the Ancient Greeks to Tim Berners-Lee's creation of the Internet.
Here are the men and women who gave us geometry (Euclid), printing (Gutenberg), the telescope (Galileo), dynamite (Alfred Nobel), the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell), psychoanalysis (Freud), radium (Marie Curie) and penicillin (Alexander Fleming). Weaving together biographical detail and clear descriptions of scientific discoveries, Science presents many fascinating and curiously different stories of scientific breakthrough.
Each essay within the book presents a biography of a particular scientist, relates the significance of their most important discoveries, and explains the impact these discoveries have had upon the world.
Lively and accessible, Science entertains as it informs.
If I saw furthier t^an others/ said Sir IsaacINeWtoi^, It is
¦ ¦ , ; J •' ¦ I
because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.'
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Ranging across the spectrum of scientific encBlavour, from the cosmology oj Copernicus and Galileo, through the medical revolutions of Hippacrates and Galen^it includes the fields of physics, biology cheritistry and genetics.
This is the story of thejdeas that hiive shapefcl(the world today, and^the ideas ^a^Vill sTiape the future.
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