Stories of scientific discovery
By: by D. B. Hammond.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Scientists -- Biography; Science -- History
Notes: Reprint of the 1923 ed.
Table of contents: title: Priestley and Lavoisier and the chemical revolution.; title: The life and adventures of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.; title: William Herschel and the discovery of the planet Uranus.; title: Fabre, poet of science.; title: Faraday and his electrical discoveries.; title: The Curies and the discovery of radium.; title: Darwin and Wallace and the evolutionary theory.; title: Pasteur and his work on germs and inoculations.