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040 _cJTL
050 _aQ141
_b.F37 2006
100 _aFarndon, John
245 _aGreat scientists :
_bfrom Euclid to Stephen Hawking /
_cJohn Farndon and Alex Woolf, Anne Rooney, Liz Gogerly.
260 _aNew York :
_bBarnes & Noble,
_c2006.
300 _a128 pages :
_billustrations (chiefly color) ;
_c31 cm.
500 _aProfiles influential scientists and their discoveries, including Nicolas Copernicus, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. Some of the most important principles of modern society were founded hundreds, even thousands, of years ago. Explore the lives of some of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of all time, from Socrates to Sartre. Topics covered include, how they lived, what their principles were, and what kind of an impact they have on modern society.
505 _aThe ancients : Archimedes -- The Renaissance : Leonardo da Vinci -- Nicolas Copernicus -- Andreas Vesalius -- Galileo Galilei -- The seventeenth century : Anton von Leeuwenhoek -- Robert Hooke -- Sir Isaac Newton -- The eighteenth century : Carolus Linnaeus -- Antoine Lavoisier -- John Dalton -- The nineteenth century: Michael Faraday -- Charles Darwin -- Louis Pasteur -- Gregor Mendel -- Dmitri Mendeleyev -- James Clerk Maxwell -- The twentieth century: Max Planck -- Marie Curie -- Ernest Rutherford -- Albert Einstein -- Niels Bohr -- Edwin Hubble -- Werner Heisenberg -- The DNA team: Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin -- Stephen Hawking.
650 _aScientists
_xBiography
_xJuvenile literature.
650 _aScientists
_xHistory
_xJuvenile literature.
942 _2lcc
_cDWBSLC
_hQ 141
_i.F37 2006
999 _c17985
_d17985