The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery

Edited by Andrew Robinson

ISBN 10: 0500251916 / ISBN 13: 9780500251911

Published by Thames & Hudson, 2012

About this Item

Used Hardcover. Condition: Book - Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. 304 pp. Oversized hardcover in dark blue cloth on board cover and illustrated dust jacket. Unmarked interior fully intact, with straight and true spine, sharp cover corners and tight binding. Contents: "The experiments, discoveries, theories, and inventions of great scientists have revolutionized the understanding of world. Behind these breakthroughs (such as gravity, evolution by natural selection, relativity, radioactivity, the genetic code, the Big Bang, electric motors, nuclear power, synthetic drugs, brain scanning, computers, and the Internet), lie the personal stories of exceptional men and women with vision and determination. Ships from Canada at postage costs set by Canada Post.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500251916
• ISBN 13: 9780500251911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science – from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and science writers, provides an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Organized thematically, starting at the ‘Universe’, and moving smaller through the ‘Earth’ and ‘Molecules and Matter’ to ‘Inside the Atom’, with the final two sections looking at ‘Life’ and ‘Body and Mind’, it covers all the major scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computing, ecology, geology, medicine, neurology, physics and psychology, as well as mathematics. The Scientists will intrigue budding scientists, those fascinated by the lives of great individuals, and anyone curious to know how over the centuries we came to understand the physical world around us and inside us.

About the Author

Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, nine of them on aspects of Indian history and culture. They include two definitive biographies: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, described by V. S. Naipaul as ‘an extraordinarily good, detailed and selfless book’, and the coauthored Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.