DK Eyewitness Books: Great Scientists

by Fortey, Jackie; Farndon, John

• ISBN13: 9780756629748
• ISBN10: 0756629748
• Edition: CD
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2007-06-25
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

Full-color illustrations and photographs introduce readers to the great scientists and their discoveries from ancient history to modern times. Includes clip-art CD-ROM and wall chart.

Table of Contents

Aristotle	p. 6
Archimedes	p. 8
Zhang Heng	p. 10
Alhazen	p. 12
Roger Bacon	p. 14
Galileo Galilei	p. 16
William Harvey	p. 18
Robert Hooke	p. 20
Isaac Newton	p. 22
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier	p. 24
Benjamin Franklin	p. 26
Joseph Banks	p. 28
Georges Cuvier	p. 30
Charles Darwin	p. 32
Charles Babbage	p. 34
Michael Faraday	p. 36
Thomas Edison	p. 37
Louis Pasteur	p. 38
Dmitry Mendeleyev	p. 40
Marie Curie	p. 42
Ernest Rutherford	p. 44
Albert Einstein	p. 46
Alfred Wegener	p. 48
Edwin Hubble	p. 50
Crick and Watson	p. 52
Alan Turing	p. 54
James Lovelock	p. 56
Dorothy Hodgkin	p. 58
Richard Feynman	p. 60
Stephen Hawking	p. 61
Science and the future	p. 62
Milestones in science	p. 64
Find out more	p. 67
The Nobel Prize	p. 68
Glossary	p. 70
Index	p. 72
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