Welcome to the Kids' Library!
Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.
| Title |
Science in 100 key breakthroughs / Paul Parsons. |
|
| Imprint |
Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books (U.S.) ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2011. |
|
| Description |
416 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), port. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Counting -- Geometry -- Curvature of the earth -- Astrometry -- Algebra -- Aviation -- Scientific method -- Heliocentric solar system -- Human anatomy -- Kepler's laws -- Astronomical telescope -- Calculus -- Newton's 'Principia' -- Linnaean taxonomy -- Kinetic theory -- Principle of least action -- Galaxies -- Bayes's theorem -- Combustion -- Photosynthesis -- Deep time -- Conservation laws -- Vaccination -- Electricity -- Wave theory of light -- Atomic theory -- Molecules -- Navier-Stokes equations -- Greenhouse effect -- Ice ages -- Cell theory -- Anaesthetics -- Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Foucault;s Pendulum -- Natural selection -- Spectroscopy -- Maxwell's equations -- Germ theory -- Mendel's laws of inheritance -- Antiseptics -- Periodic table -- Out of Africa -- Nervous system -- X-rays -- Radioactivity -- Vitamins -- Viruses -- Rocket science -- Photons -- Special relativity -- Earth's core -- Radiometric dating -- The Burgess Shale -- Superconductors -- Continental drift -- General relativity -- Insulin -- Wave-particle duality -- Schrodinger's Equation -- Penicillin -- Game theory -- Hubble's law -- Bing Bang theory -- Antimatter -- Dark matter -- Ecology -- Radar -- Computers -- Splitting the atom -- Black holes -- DNA carries genes -- Semiconductor electronics -- Information theory -- Quantum electrodynamics -- The double helix -- Miller-Urey experiment -- Transplant surgery -- Lasers -- Parallel universes -- Chaos theory -- Quasars -- Higgs boson -- Cognitive psychology -- String theory -- Genetic engineering -- Hawking radiation -- Death of the dinosaurs -- Scanning tunnelling microscope -- Quantum entanglement -- Fullerenes -- Gene therapy -- Functional MRI scanners -- Evidence-based medicine -- Extrasolar planets -- Fermat's Last Theorem -- Cloning -- Deep Blue beats Kasparov -- Human genome -- Large Hadron Collider -- Synthetic life. |
| Summary |
Brief accounts of the key concepts and discoveries of science through world history. |
| Subject |
Science -- Popular works.
|
|
Discoveries in science -- History -- Popular works.
|
|
Science -- History -- Popular works.
|
| Added Title |
Science in one hundred key breakthroughs |
| ISBN |
9781554078080 (pbk.) : $29.95 |
|
1554078083 (pbk.) |
|
