The Great Scientists: Story of Science Told Through the Lives of Twelve Landmark Figures

by Meadows, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780833553782
• ISBN10: 083355378X
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Turtleback Books

Summary

An illustrated history of the development of science and its relationship to society comprises biographies of twelve pivotal scientists, and commentary on the social and historical events of their time

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(3)
Aristotle	9	(20)
The Greek Academies	14	(2)
Technology in the Greek World	16	(7)
Aristotle and Alexander	23	(3)
Aristotle in the Middle Ages	26	(3)
Galileo Galilei	29	(20)
The Academies of Italy	35	(1)
Navigation and Mathematics	36	(6)
Astrology	42	(4)
The Church in a New Age	46	(3)
William Harvey	49	(20)
Medical Schools and Hospitals	54	(4)
Kill or Cure?	58	(4)
Puritans and Royalists	62	(2)
Humors, Plague and Witchcraft	64	(5)
Isaac Newton	69	(20)
Societies and Journals	75	(3)
Scientific Instrumentation	78	(4)
Newton and the Muse	82	(4)
The Age of Reason	86	(3)
Antoine Lavoisier	89	(20)
The French Academy of Sciences	94	(4)
Chemical Apparatus	98	(4)
Science and the Revolution	102	(4)
The Language of Science	106	(3)
Alexander von Humboldt	109	(20)
Economic Advantage	114	(7)
Science in the Universities	121	(3)
Scientific Associations	124	(3)
Scientific Cooperation Worldwide	127	(2)
Michael Faraday	129	(20)
Nonconformist Religion and Science	135	(1)
The Popularization of Science	136	(6)
The Rise of the Professional Scientist	142	(2)
Growth of the Electrical Industry	144	(5)
Charles Darwin	149	(20)
FitzRoy and the Beagle	154	(5)
Specialized Societies	159	(3)
Science versus Religion	162	(2)
Darwin and Literature	164	(5)
Louis Pasteur	169	(20)
The ``Bankruptcy'' of Science	175	(5)
The Art of Pure Culture	180	(2)
``Fringe'' Medicine	182	(4)
Scientific Medicine	186	(3)
Marie Curie	189	(20)
Women in Science	195	(1)
Origins of East European Science	196	(7)
Nobel Prizes	203	(1)
Radiography and Radiotherapy	204	(5)
Sigmund Freud	209	(20)
Science and Pseudoscience	215	(1)
Study of the Brain	216	(6)
Asylums and Treatment	222	(4)
Freud and the Arts	226	(3)
Albert Einstein	229	(20)
Ideology and Science	236	(2)
Einstein and Literature	238	(4)
Exploration of the Atom	242	(4)
Rise of a Scientific Power	246	(3)
Further reading and credits	249	(1)
Glossary	250	(2)
Index	252