Giants of science (Viking)
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
2) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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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Marie Curie , Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
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Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.