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Eureka! : the most amazing scientific discoveries of all time / Dr. Mike Goldsmith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London; Thames & Hudson, c2014.Description: 95 pages; illustrations (some color); 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780500650257 (hc)
  • 050065025X (hc)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 509 23
LOC classification:
  • Q180.55.D57 G65 2014
Other classification:
  • JNF051170
Contents:
Scientific discoveries: where and when -- Seeing the invisible : Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- A cure for a killer disease : Louis Pasteur -- Discovering penicillin : Alexander Fleming -- The fight against disease : Gertrude Elion -- Mapping the body : William Harvey -- The secret of life : Francis Crick and James Watson -- Laws of the universe : Isaac Newton -- Experiments in space and time : Albert Einstein -- Investigating radioactivity : Marie Curie -- The periodic table : Dmitri Mendeleev -- The power of electricity : Michael Faraday -- Naming the natural world : Carl Linnaeus -- The theory of evolution : Charles Darwin -- Unmasking dinosaurs : Richard Owen -- Drifting continents : Alfred Wegener -- Defining our solar system : Nicolaus Copernicus -- Looking into space : Galileo Galilei -- Discovering galaxies : Edwin Hubble -- The big bang : Georges Lemaître -- Glossary.
Summary: Describes how some of the most important scientific discoveries and theories came about and offers insights into the lives of the scientists who made the contributions.--
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Junior Non-Fiction Junior Non-Fiction Waimate Junior Non-Fiction Children &Young Adults Section 509 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available a00717557

Includes index.

Scientific discoveries: where and when -- Seeing the invisible : Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- A cure for a killer disease : Louis Pasteur -- Discovering penicillin : Alexander Fleming -- The fight against disease : Gertrude Elion -- Mapping the body : William Harvey -- The secret of life : Francis Crick and James Watson -- Laws of the universe : Isaac Newton -- Experiments in space and time : Albert Einstein -- Investigating radioactivity : Marie Curie -- The periodic table : Dmitri Mendeleev -- The power of electricity : Michael Faraday -- Naming the natural world : Carl Linnaeus -- The theory of evolution : Charles Darwin -- Unmasking dinosaurs : Richard Owen -- Drifting continents : Alfred Wegener -- Defining our solar system : Nicolaus Copernicus -- Looking into space : Galileo Galilei -- Discovering galaxies : Edwin Hubble -- The big bang : Georges Lemaître -- Glossary.

Describes how some of the most important scientific discoveries and theories came about and offers insights into the lives of the scientists who made the contributions.--

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