The great scientists
Subtitle: from Euclid to Stephen Hawking
By: John Farndon and Alex Woolf, Anne Rooney, Liz Gogerly
Contributors: Woolf, Alex; Rooney, Anne; Gogerly, Liz
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781848376069
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Science; Scientists; Biography; History
Description: Represented In this book are the some of the greatest practitioners of science from a wide range of scientific disciplines.  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 their key ideas.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Ancients. Euclid ; Archimedes ; Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy; title: The Middle Ages. The medieval Arab scientists (Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, al-Biruni); title: The Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci ; Nicolas Copernicus ; Andreas Vesalius ; Galileo Galilei; title: The Seventeenth Century. Christiaan Huygens ; Anton van Leeuwenhoek ; Robert Hooke ; Sir Isaac Newton; title: The Eighteenth Century.  Carolus Linnaeus ; James Hutton ; Antoine Lavoisier ; John Dalton; title: The Nineteenth Century. Michael Faraday ; Charles Babbage ; Charles Darwin ; Louis Pasteur ; Gregor Mendel ; Dmitri Mendeleyev ; James Clerk Maxwell; title: 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.