History of Western Science - Folio Society edition

History of Western Science

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History of Western Science - Folio Society edition
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History of Western Science
Folio Society
Science & Nature

History of Western Science

John Gribbin
Edition year 2006
Binding Leather
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 706
Dimensions 25 × 17.5 cm

Edition details

History of Western Science 1543-2001 by John Gribbin. 18 colour plates. Bound in quarter dark blue leather with decorated pale blue cloth boards. 706pp. 25x17.5cm.

About the book

This book celebrates the towering geniuses whose dogged dedication and staggering leaps of the imagination have opened our eyes to the universe we live in. John Gribbin begins in 1543, the year when Copernicus announced that the sun, not the earth, was at the centre of the known universe and when Vesalius published the first accurate anatomy of the human body based on dissection and observation. Each leads on to the next great innovator: Copernicus to Galileo, Vesalius to Harvey and the circulation of the blood. As Gribbin says, ‘science is made by people, not people by science'. Revelling in the colourful, the eccentric and the unsung, he tells the human stories of science: Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler boosting his income with self-confessed ‘silly and empty' horoscopes; Marie Curie forced to study alone for fear she would ‘excite' male students Gribbin's style is lively and clear, filled with absorbing anecdotes and flashes of humour. Yet he manages to pack the pages with almost 500 years of science, encompassing every discovery and theory from the simple, yet essential telescope, through mind-stretching theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, right up to the mapping of the human genome.

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