from Euclid to Stephen Hawking Farndon, John creator text xxu New York Barnes & Noble 2006 monographic eng

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128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. The 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. John Farndon and Alex Woolf, Anne Rooney, Liz Gogerly. Profiles 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. Scientists Biography Juvenile literature Scientists History Juvenile literature Q141 .F37 2006 9780760780619 170301 20201029133921.0