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100 1 $aFarndon, John.
245 14 $aThe great scientists :$bfrom Euclid to Stephen Hawking /$cJohn Farndon ; and Alex Woolf, Anne Rooney, Liz Gogerly.
260 $aNew York :$bBarnes & Noble Books,$c2006, ©2005.
300 $a160 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"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."--Jacket.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
650 0 $aScientists$vBiography.
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700 1 $aWoolf, Alex,$d1964-
700 1 $aRooney, Anne.
700 1 $aGogerly, Liz.
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