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Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jim Weiss brings you inspiring true stories of heroic scientists who risked everything for the truth. This collection of true stories of brave scientists includes Archimedes and his famous "Eureka!" moment, Galileo's telescope, Isaac Newton's discoveries, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, General Prize" Stuart Clark is a former editor of the United Kingdom's best-selling astronomy magazine, Astronomy Now. He currently writes for the European Space Agency and is a regular contributor to such magazines as New Scientist and BBC Focus. He is the author of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out of history. This book presents the stories of six intrepid Frenchwomen of science in the Enlightenment whose accomplishments--though celebrated in their lifetimes--have been generally omitted from subsequent studies of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole Reine Lepaute, field naturalist...
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