An edition of Great Scientists (2005)

The great scientists

from Euclid to Stephen Hawking

by , , , , and

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An edition of Great Scientists (2005)

The great scientists

from Euclid to Stephen Hawking

by , , , , and

"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.

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Barnes & Noble Books
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Science, Scientists, Biography, History, Scientists, biography, Science, popular works, Juvenile literature, Scientists, juvenile literature, Science, history, Science, juvenile literature

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2012, Rosen Publishing Group
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2012, Arcturus Publishing Ltd.
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Dec 15, 2012, Rosen Pub Group
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2007, Metro Books
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The Great Scientists: From Euclid to Stephen Hawking.
2007-01-01, Capella.
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Table of Contents

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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Includes index.

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2005

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Dewey Decimal Class
509.2
Library of Congress
Q141 .F3718 2006

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Pagination
160 pages
Number of pages
160

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Open Library
OL30098250M
Internet Archive
greatscientistsf0000farn_u6r2
ISBN 10
0760780617
ISBN 13
9780760780619
OCLC/WorldCat
191673569

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Represented In this book are the some of the greatest practitioners of science from a wide range of scientific disciplines. 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 their key ideas.

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