The Scientists

Autori

• John R. Gribbin

Parametri

• 672 pagine
• 24 ore di lettura

• Biografie e pensieri
• Saggistica
• Scienze Naturali
• Storia
• Storia del mondo

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This tells the story of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. Gribbin begins with Copernicus, during the Renaissance, when science replaced mysticism as a means of explaining the workings of the world, and he continues through the centuries, creating an unbroken genealogy of not only the greatest but also the more obscure names of Western science, a dot-to-dot line linking amateur to genius, and accidental discovery to brilliant deduction

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2004

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