The great scientists
Subtitle: from Euclid to Stephen Hawking
By: John Farndon ; and Alex Woolf, Anne Rooney, Liz Gogerly
Contributors: Woolf, Alex, 1964-; Rooney, Anne; Gogerly, Liz
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780760780619
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Science; History; Biography; Scientists
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The ancients: Euclid ; Archimedes ; Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy; title: The Middle Ages: The medieval Arab scientists; 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.