The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors Tapa blanda - 2004
de John Gribbin; Adam Hook (Illustrator)
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Greece, some 1500 years before Copernicus came on the scene.
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A wonderfully readable account of scientifi c development over the past fi ve hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger'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 the few authors who could even attempt a work of this magnitude. Praised as "a sequence of witty, information-packed tales" and "a terrifi c read" by The Times upon its recent British publication, The Scientists breathes new life into such venerable icons as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, as well as lesser lights whose stories have been undeservedly neglected. Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is the history of science as it has never been told before.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Título The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
- Autor John Gribbin; Adam Hook (Illustrator)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: first
- Páginas 672
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Random House Trade, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2004-08-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780812967883 / 0812967887
- Peso 1.12 libras (0.51 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.03 x 5.23 x 1.42 pulgadas (20.40 x 13.28 x 3.61 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Scientists, Science - History
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2003046607
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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