Science: A History
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
In this book, John Gribbin tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the eccentric, even the mad. This diversecast includes, among others, Andreas Vesalius, landmark 16th-century anatomist and secret grave-robber; the flamboyant Galileo, accused of heresy for his ideas; the obsessive, competitive Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; GregorMendel, the Moravian monk who founded modern genetics; and Louis Agassiz, so determined to prove the existence of ice ages that he marched his colleagues up a mountain to show them the evidence.
Customer Reviews
Science: A History
Immensely knowledgeable history of science written, ingeniously, through the lives of the scientists who made it happen. This technique makes the book very accessible, maintaining a real human interest throughout, and giving a superb insight into both science and the way it develops. Can't recommend this too highly to any sort of reader from any walk of life.
Only one criticism, and that is of this digital edition. The number of typos would have had it pulped if it were a print version. Dates such as 162z, Robert Hooke doing his great work at the age of 2.00,