Eureka! : the most amazing scientific discoveries of all time / Dr. Mike Goldsmith.
Title:
Eureka! : the most amazing scientific discoveries of all time / Dr. Mike Goldsmith.
ISBN:
9780500650257
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2014.
Physical Description:
95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Scientific discoveries: where and when -- Seeing the invisible : Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- A cure for a killer disease : Louis Pasteur -- Discovering penicillin : Alexander Fleming -- The fight against disease : Gertrude Elion -- Mapping the body : William Harvey -- The secret of life : Francis Crick and James Watson -- Laws of the universe : Isaac Newton -- Experiments in space and time : Albert Einstein -- Investigating radioactivity : Marie Curie -- The periodic table : Dmitri Mendeleev -- The power of electricity : Michael Faraday -- Naming the natural world : Carl Linnaeus -- The theory of evolution : Charles Darwin -- Unmasking dinosaurs : Richard Owen -- Drifting continents : Alfred Wegener -- Defining our solar system : Nicolaus Copernicus -- Looking into space : Galileo Galilei -- Discovering galaxies : Edwin Hubble -- The big bang : Georges Lemaître -- Glossary.
Summary:
Describes how some of the most important scientific discoveries and theories came about and offers insights into the lives of the scientists who made the contributions.
OCLC Number:
ocn858843323
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
