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On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA

On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA

by Melvyn Bragg (Author)

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    Hardcover 1998

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

The story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of 12 of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick and Watson. Exploring their impact and legacy with leading scientists of today, including Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks, Lewis Wolpert, Susan Greenfield, Roger Penrose and Richard Dawkins, Melvyn Bragg illuminates the core issues of science past and present, and seeks to convey the excitement and importance of the scientific past.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 376
 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 05 Mar 1998
ISBN 10: 0340712597
ISBN 13: 9780340712597

Author Bio
Melvyn Bragg is the author of sixteen novels including the bestselling Credo and The Maid of Buttermere, and of several works of non-fiction including Speak for England, an oral history of the twentieth century, and Rich, a biography of Richard Burton. He was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton's Nelson Tomlinson Shool and at Oxford where he read history. He is controller of Arts at LWT and President of the National Campaign for the Arts, and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He lives in London and Cumbria.