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The best-selling author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat creates a fascinating history of human scientific achievement as revealed by the lives and individual accomplishments of Andreas Vesalius, Nicholaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Charles Darwin, Galileo, Gregor Mendel, Alfred Wegener, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, and other notable scientists. 30,000 first printing.
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“Essential reading...tells the story of science as a sequence of witty, information-packed tales...complete with humanizing asides, glimpses of the scientist’s personal life and amusing anecdotes.”
—London Sunday Times, Books of the Year
“Excels at making complex science intelligible to the general reader...If you’re looking for a book that captures the personal drama and achievement of science, then look no further.”—The Guardian
“Gripping and entertaining...wonderfully and pleasurably accessible... Much of the history of science reads like a detective story, which in the hands of a skilled narrator like Gribbin makes the description of each new advance appear as an illumination.”—The Independent on Sunday
“Tremendous...moves me to bestow a reviewer’s cliché I long ago vowed never to use: a tour de force.”
—The Spectator
“A splendid book...exposes the factual roots of some of science’s well-known tales (for example, Galileo never dropped weights of different sizes from Pisa’s leaning tower).”—The Economist
“A magnificent history...enormously entertaining.”—The Daily Telegraph
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“Essential reading...tells the story of science as a sequence of witty, information-packed tales...complete with humanizing asides, glimpses of the scientist’s personal life and amusing anecdotes.”
—London Sunday Times, Books of the Year
“Excels at making complex science intelligible to the general reader...If you’re looking for a book that captures the personal drama and achievement of science, then look no further.”—The Guardian
“Gripping and entertaining...wonderfully and pleasurably accessible... Much of the history of science reads like a detective story, which in the hands of a skilled narrator like Gribbin makes the description of each new advance appear as an illumination.”—The Independent on Sunday
“Tremendous...moves me to bestow a reviewer’s cliché I long ago vowed never to use: a tour de force.”
—The Spectator
“A splendid book...exposes the factual roots of some of science’s well-known tales (for example, Galileo never dropped weights of different sizes from Pisa’s leaning tower).”—The Economist
“A magnificent history...enormously entertaining.”—The Daily Telegraph
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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- Data di pubblicazione2003
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- Numero di pagine646
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