Giants of science (Viking)
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
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English
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Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children's ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a scientist.
2) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
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English
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Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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Sigmund Freud , Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
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4) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
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English
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Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
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English
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Albert Einstein: his name has become a synonym for genius. His wild case of bedhead and playful sense of humor made him a media superstar-the first, maybe only, scientist-celebrity.
He wasn't much for lab work-in fact he had a tendency to blow up experiments. What he liked to do was think-not in words, but in "thought experiments." What was the result of all his thinking? Nothing less than the overturning of Newtonian physics.
Once again, Kathleen...
