The Scientists
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
$62.83
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2004
Summary
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 workin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812967883 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812967887 |
| Author: | John Gribbin, Adam Hook |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 131mm x 37mm |
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Praise for The Scientists
“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
About The Author
John Gribbin
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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