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Table of Contents
  • 1: Perceptive pioneers
    • 1: Aristotle
    • 2: Greek greats
    • 1: Pythagoras
    • 2: Empedocles
    • 3: Democritus
    • 4: Euclid
    • 5: Hypatia
    • 4: Archimedes
    • 5: Hippocrates
    • 6: Zhang Heng
    • 7: Claudius Galen
    • 8: Al-Khwarizmi
    • 9: Avicenna
    • 10: Averroes
    • 11: Fibonacci
    • 12: Francis Bacon
  • 2: Brilliant biologists
    • 1: Hildegard of Bingen
    • 2: Mary Anning
    • 3: Seeing things
    • 1: Alhazen
    • 2: Roger Bacon
    • 3: Willebrord Snell
    • 4: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    • 5: Patricia Bath
    • 4: Robert Hooke
    • 5: Carl Linnaeus
    • 6: Charles Darwin
    • 7: Gregor Mendel
    • 8: Nettie Stevens
    • 9: Thomas Hunt Morgan
    • 10: Alexander Fleming
    • 11: Franklin, Crick, and Watson
    • 12: Inge Lehmann
    • 13: Live James Lovelock
    • 14: Charles David Keeling
    • 15: Medical masterminds
    • 1: Edward Jenner
    • 2: Jonas Salk
    • 3: Paul Ehrlich
    • 4: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
    • 5: Joshua Lederberg
  • 3: Clever chemists
    • 1: Robert Boyle
    • 2: Joseph Black
    • 3: Joseph Priestly
    • 4: Alessandro Volta
    • 6: Michael Faraday
    • 7: Louis Pasteur
    • 8: Dmitri Mendeleev
    • 9: Inventive chemists
    • 1: Charles Goodyear
    • 2: Leo Baekeland
    • 3: Percy Julian
    • 4: Stephanie Kwolek
    • 5: George William Gray
    • 10: The Curies
    • 11: Alice Ball
    • 12: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
    • 13: Barbara McClintock
  • 4: Phenomenal physicists
    • 1: Leonardo da Vinci
    • 2: Nicolaus Copernicus
    • 3: Galileo Galilei
    • 4: Johannes Kepler
    • 5: Christiaan Huygens
    • 6: Edmond Halley
    • 7: Henriette Swan Leavitt
    • 8: Isaac Newton
    • 9: James Clerk Maxwell
    • 10: Ernest Rutherford
    • 11: Albert Einstein
    • 12: J Robert Oppenheimer
    • 13: Penzias and Wilson
    • 14: Quantum physicists
    • 1: James Chadwick
    • 2: Werner Heisenberg
    • 3: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
    • 4: Richard Feynman
    • 5: Peter Higgs
    • 15: Edwin Hubble
    • 16: Vera Rubin
    • 17: Stephen Hawking
  • 5: Incredible inventors
    • 1: James Watt
    • 2: Rudolf Diesel
    • 3: Computing creatives
    • 1: Ada Lovelace
    • 2: Grace Murray Hopper
    • 3: John von Neumann
    • 4: Anne Easley
    • 5: Tim Berners-Lee
    • 4: Wilhelm Rontgen
    • 5: C V Raman
    • 6: Nikola Tesla
    • 7: Joseph Lister
    • 8: Alan Turing
    • 9: Alfred Nobel
    • 10: Ali Javan
    • 11: Rachel Carson
    • 12: Communicators
    • 1: David Attenborough
    • 2: Carl Sagan
    • 3: Dava Sobel
    • 3: Bill Nye
    • 4: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  • 6: Let’s applaud…
  • 7: Glossary
  • 8: Index
  • 9: Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/2018
      ISBN13: 9780241304327, 978-0241304327
      ISBN10: 0241304326

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      • 1: Perceptive pioneers
        • 1: Aristotle
        • 2: Greek greats
        • 1: Pythagoras
        • 2: Empedocles
        • 3: Democritus
        • 4: Euclid
        • 5: Hypatia
        • 4: Archimedes
        • 5: Hippocrates
        • 6: Zhang Heng
        • 7: Claudius Galen
        • 8: Al-Khwarizmi
        • 9: Avicenna
        • 10: Averroes
        • 11: Fibonacci
        • 12: Francis Bacon
      • 2: Brilliant biologists
        • 1: Hildegard of Bingen
        • 2: Mary Anning
        • 3: Seeing things
        • 1: Alhazen
        • 2: Roger Bacon
        • 3: Willebrord Snell
        • 4: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
        • 5: Patricia Bath
        • 4: Robert Hooke
        • 5: Carl Linnaeus
        • 6: Charles Darwin
        • 7: Gregor Mendel
        • 8: Nettie Stevens
        • 9: Thomas Hunt Morgan
        • 10: Alexander Fleming
        • 11: Franklin, Crick, and Watson
        • 12: Inge Lehmann
        • 13: Live James Lovelock
        • 14: Charles David Keeling
        • 15: Medical masterminds
        • 1: Edward Jenner
        • 2: Jonas Salk
        • 3: Paul Ehrlich
        • 4: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
        • 5: Joshua Lederberg
      • 3: Clever chemists
        • 1: Robert Boyle
        • 2: Joseph Black
        • 3: Joseph Priestly
        • 4: Alessandro Volta
        • 6: Michael Faraday
        • 7: Louis Pasteur
        • 8: Dmitri Mendeleev
        • 9: Inventive chemists
        • 1: Charles Goodyear
        • 2: Leo Baekeland
        • 3: Percy Julian
        • 4: Stephanie Kwolek
        • 5: George William Gray
        • 10: The Curies
        • 11: Alice Ball
        • 12: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
        • 13: Barbara McClintock
      • 4: Phenomenal physicists
        • 1: Leonardo da Vinci
        • 2: Nicolaus Copernicus
        • 3: Galileo Galilei
        • 4: Johannes Kepler
        • 5: Christiaan Huygens
        • 6: Edmond Halley
        • 7: Henriette Swan Leavitt
        • 8: Isaac Newton
        • 9: James Clerk Maxwell
        • 10: Ernest Rutherford
        • 11: Albert Einstein
        • 12: J Robert Oppenheimer
        • 13: Penzias and Wilson
        • 14: Quantum physicists
        • 1: James Chadwick
        • 2: Werner Heisenberg
        • 3: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
        • 4: Richard Feynman
        • 5: Peter Higgs
        • 15: Edwin Hubble
        • 16: Vera Rubin
        • 17: Stephen Hawking
      • 5: Incredible inventors
        • 1: James Watt
        • 2: Rudolf Diesel
        • 3: Computing creatives
        • 1: Ada Lovelace
        • 2: Grace Murray Hopper
        • 3: John von Neumann
        • 4: Anne Easley
        • 5: Tim Berners-Lee
        • 4: Wilhelm Rontgen
        • 5: C V Raman
        • 6: Nikola Tesla
        • 7: Joseph Lister
        • 8: Alan Turing
        • 9: Alfred Nobel
        • 10: Ali Javan
        • 11: Rachel Carson
        • 12: Communicators
        • 1: David Attenborough
        • 2: Carl Sagan
        • 3: Dava Sobel
        • 3: Bill Nye
        • 4: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
      • 6: Let’s applaud…
      • 7: Glossary
      • 8: Index
      • 9: Acknowledgments

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