The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by Gribbin, John
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by Gribbin, John

The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors

A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives...
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Author: John Gribbin
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by Gribbin, John

The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors

$52.85
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by Gribbin, John

The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors

$52.85
Author: John Gribbin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schr dinger's Cat

In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. He 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.

By focusing on the scientists themselves, Gribbin has written an anecdotal narrative enlivened with stories of personal drama, success and failure. A bestselling science writer with an international reputation, Gribbin is among the few authors who could even attempt a work of this magnitude. Praised as "a sequence of witty, information-packed tales" and "a terrific read" by The Times upon its recent British publication, The Scientists breathes new life into such venerable icons as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, as well as lesser lights whose stories have been undeservedly neglected. Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is the history of science as it has never been told before.

Author: John Gribbin
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780812967883

About the Author
John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. His many books include In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality and Q Is for Quantum. He lives in Sussex, England.
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