Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History

Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking—we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety from his battle with the Vatican over the question of heliocentrism, but did you know that he was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but his bold curiosity extended to the dinner table as well. (And how many people can say they've eaten an owl!) In Eureka! John Grant—author of Debunk It!, Discarded Science, Spooky Science and many others—offers fifty vivid portraits of groundbreaking scientists, focusing not just on the ideas and breakthroughs that made them so important but also on their lives and their various...quirks.

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Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History

Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking—we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety from his battle with the Vatican over the question of heliocentrism, but did you know that he was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but his bold curiosity extended to the dinner table as well. (And how many people can say they've eaten an owl!) In Eureka! John Grant—author of Debunk It!, Discarded Science, Spooky Science and many others—offers fifty vivid portraits of groundbreaking scientists, focusing not just on the ideas and breakthroughs that made them so important but also on their lives and their various...quirks.

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Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History

Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History

by John Grant
Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History

Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History

by John Grant

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Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking—we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety from his battle with the Vatican over the question of heliocentrism, but did you know that he was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but his bold curiosity extended to the dinner table as well. (And how many people can say they've eaten an owl!) In Eureka! John Grant—author of Debunk It!, Discarded Science, Spooky Science and many others—offers fifty vivid portraits of groundbreaking scientists, focusing not just on the ideas and breakthroughs that made them so important but also on their lives and their various...quirks.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541581814
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/01/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 226
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

John Grant, real name Paul Barnett, was the author of over sixty books, of which about one‑third were novels. His The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters is regarded as the standard work in its field. As co-editor with John Clute of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, he received the Hugo, the World Fantasy Award, and several other international awards. He received his second Hugo in 2004 for The Chesley Awards with Elizabeth L. Humphrey and Pamela D. Scoville. As technical editor of the Clute/Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction he shared a rare British Science Fiction Association Special Award. He died in 2020.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Pythagoras of Samos (ca. 570-ca. 495 BCE?) 9

Hippocrates (ca. 460-ca. 370 BCE) 13

Euclid of Alexandria (ca. 325-ca. 270 BCE) 17

Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287-212 BCE) 20

Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) (ca. 90-ca. 168) 24

Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. 355-415) 28

Alhazen (Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham) (ca. 965-ca. 1040) 32

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) 35

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) 39

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 43

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 47

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 53

William Harvey (1578-1657) 60

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 63

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) 73

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) 77

Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) 80

Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) 83

James Hutton (1726-1797) 86

James Watt (1736-1819) 89

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) 92

Edward Jenner (1749-1823) 97

John Dalton (1766-1844) 99

William Smith (1769-1839) 103

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) 106

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 110

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) 119

Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) 122

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) 125

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) 129

Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) 135

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 138

Marie Curie (1867-1934) 143

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) 148

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 152

Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) 163

Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) 166

Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) 170

Howard Florey (1898-1968) 173

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) 176

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) 179

Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 184

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) 187

Alan Turing (1912-1954) 190

Jonas Salk (1914-1995) 194

James Lovelock (b. 1919) 198

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) 201

Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) 204

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943) 211

James Hansen (b. 1941) 214

Index of Names 218

Acknowledgments / About the Author 224

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