On Giants' Shoulders

On Giants' Shoulders

Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA

Bragg, Melvyn

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

03/2007

386

Mole

Inglês

9780471396840

15 a 20 dias

This tribute to some of the greatest minds in the history of science integrates engaging portraits of these figures with accessible background on their most important discoveries. Those profiled include Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Curie, Freud, Einstein, James Watson, and Francis Crick.
Archimedes (C. 287 BC-212 BC) (L. Jardine, et al.). Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) (M. Biagioli, et al.). Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (J. Gribbin, et al.). Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) (P. Atkins, et al.). Michael Faraday (1791-1867) (G. Cantor, et al.). Charles Darwin (1809-1882) (J. Browne, et al.). Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912) (J. Green, et al.). Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) (S. Greenfield, et al.). Marie Curie (1867-1934) (F. Balibar, et al.). Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (J. Burnell, et al.). Francis Crick (1916-) and James Watson (1928-) (J. Watson, et al.). Where Are We Now? (I. Aleksander, et al.). Further Reading. Acknowledgments.
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