History of Western science 1543-2001 / John Gribbin.
Publication details: London : Folio Society, 2006.Description: xxix, 706 p. : ill. (some col.) , col. ports. ; 25 cmUniform titles:- Science: a history, 1543-2001
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In slip-case.
Reprinted with minor emendations and a new preface by the author. -- originally published: as Science : a history, 1543-2001. London : Allen Lane, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From award-winning science writer John Gribbin, Science: A History is the enthralling story of the men and women who changed the way we see the world, and the turbulent times they lived in.
From Galileo, tried by the Inquisition for his ideas, to Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie, forced to work apart from male students for fear she might excite them, to Louis Agassiz, who marched his colleagues up a mountain to prove that the ice ages had occurred.
Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is the history of science as it has never been told before.
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