The great scientists : from Euclid to Stephen Hawking

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Location	Collection	Call #
Northern Tier Regional Library	Juvenile	J 920 FARND
Location	Northern Tier Regional Library
Collection	Juvenile
Call Number	J 920 FARND

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Summary

"From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific disciplines are represented here. 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 of their key ideas."--From publisher.

Contents

The ancients: Euclid ; Archimedes ; Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy
The Middle Ages: The medieval Arab scientists
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.

Additional Information

Subjects	Science -- History. Scientists -- Biography.
Publisher	New York :Metro Books,2007
Contributors	Woolf, Alex, 1964- Rooney, Anne. Gogerly, Liz.
Language	English
Notes	Includes index.
Description	160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; 26 cm
ISBN	076079197X 9780760791974
Other	Classic View