John Gribbin

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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest InventorsPaperback, 1 August 2004

The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
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Print Length
672 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Random House Trade
Date Published
1 Aug 2004
ISBN-10
0812967887
ISBN-13
9780812967883

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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 Schrödinger'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.

Product Details

Author:
John Gribbin
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 August 2004
Dimensions:
20.4 x 13.28 x 3.61 cm
Illustrator:
ISBN-10:
0812967887
ISBN-13:
9780812967883
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
672
Weight:
508.02 gm

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