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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Here was a man with an imagination so large that, just "by thinking on it," he invented a new branch of math, calculus, and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he tried to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings. He spent much of his time trying to predict the future from passages in the Bible and to unlock the secret of turning base metals into gold in an alchemy lab, showing again...
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
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2006.
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English
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Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
4) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
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Penguin Young Readers Group
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English
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Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two?in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
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Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.