An edition of Great Scientists
(2005)
The great scientists
from Euclid to Stephen Hawking
by John Farndon, Professor Alex Woolf, Anne Rooney, Liz Gogerly, and Alex Woolf
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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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The great scientists: from Euclid to Stephen Hawking
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Table of Contents
The Ancients. Euclid ; Archimedes ; Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy
The Middle Ages. The medieval Arab scientists (Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, al-Biruni)
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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