The Scientists – A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
General:
Name: The Scientists – A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Format: epub
Size: 40.53 MB
Book:
Title: The Scientists
Author: John Gribbin, Adam Hook
Language: English
Year: 2002
Subjects: History, Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780812967883
Total pages: 168 str.
Description:
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. He begins with Copernicus, during the Renaissance, when science replaced mysticism as a means of explaining the workings of the world, and he continues through the centuries, creating an unbroken genealogy of not only the greatest but also the more obscure names of Western science, a dot-to-dot line linking amateur to genius, and accidental discovery to brilliant deduction.
By focusing on the scientists themselves, Gribbin has written an anecdotal narrative enlivened with stories of personal drama, success and failure. A bestselling science writer with an international reputation, Gribbin is among…
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