The Scientists by John Gribbin
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors and the Things They Discovered
A lively, accessible narrative history that traces the lives, personalities and pivotal discoveries of the great figures who shaped modern science—from Copernicus and Galileo through Newton, Darwin, Faraday and Maxwell to Einstein and the molecular biologists—showing how individual curiosity, experiments and the wider social and historical context combined to produce breakthroughs. By focusing on biographical portraits and the unfolding of ideas rather than abstract summaries, it illuminates the human drama behind scientific revolutions and the incremental work that built today’s scientific worldview.
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- 2002
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