| Description |
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; 26 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
"From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific disciplines are represented here. Each entry gives a biographical background of its subject and a description of the main themes of their work, together with concise expositions of some of their key ideas."--Publisher. |
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The ancients: Euclid ; Archimedes ; Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy -- The Middle Ages: The medieval Arab scientists -- The Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci ; Nicolas Copernicus ; Andreas Vesalius ; Galileo Galilei -- The seventeenth century: Christiaan Huygens ; Anton van Leeuwenhoek ; Robert Hooke ; Sir Isaac Newton -- The eighteenth century: Carolus Linnaeus ; James Hutton ; Antoine Lavoisier ; John Dalton -- The nineteenth century: Michael Faraday ; Charles Babbage ; Charles Darwin ; Louis Pasteur ; Gregor Mendel ; Dmitri Mendeleyev ; James Clerk Maxwell -- The twentieth century: Max Planck ; Marie Curie ; Ernest Rutherford ; Albert Einstein ; Alfred Wegener ; Niels Bohr ; Edwin Hubble ; Werner Heisenberg ; Linus Pauling ; The DNA team: Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin ; Stephen Hawking. |
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Science -- History.
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Scientists -- Biography.
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Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
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Scientists. (OCoLC)fst01108895
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Woolf, Alex, 1964-
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Rooney, Anne.
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Gogerly, Liz.
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| ISBN |
076079197X |
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9780760791974 |
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