"Well-known English journalist Melvyn Bragg presents stimulating portraits ...[and] well-rounded evaluations of each pioneer's life and influence."--Publishers WeeklyExplore the greatest minds in the history of science with some of today's top scientific thinkers On Giants' Shoulders elucidates the milestones in the history of science, focusing on twelve of the greatest minds and their extraordinary breakthroughs. From Galileo and Newton to Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, author Melvyn Bragg explores the life, work, and legacy of these remarkable people in conversations with today's leading scientists and historians, including Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Martin Rees, Oliver Sacks, John Gribbon, and Paul Davies. Ranging from the foundation of hydrostatics in the third century B.C. to the discovery of DNA's structure in our own time, this is an accessible and thought-provoking roundtable on the seminal scientific discoveries of the past 2,500 years.Melvyn Bragg is an acclaimed journalist in England, host of the popular television interview show the South Bank Show (broadcast in the U.S. on Bravo), and the author of seventeen novels and five works of nonfiction.
| ISBN | 0471396842 | | Pages | 386 | | ISBN13 | 9780471396840
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | John Wiley & Sons | | Weight (grammes) | 418 | | Imprint | CRYSTAL DREAMS PUB | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 203 | | Publication date | 01 Aug 2000 | | Width (mm) | 127 | | DEWEY | B | |
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Archimedes (C. 287 BC 212 BC) (L. Jardine, et al.). Galileo Galilei (1564 1642) (M. Biagioli, et al.). Sir Isaac Newton (1642 1727) (J. Gribbin, et al.). Antoine Lavoisier (1743 1794) (P. Atkins, et al.). Michael Faraday (1791 1867) (G. Cantor, et al.). Charles Darwin (1809 1882) (J. Browne, et al.). Jules Henri Poincare (1854 1912) (J. Green, et al.). Sigmund Freud (1856 1939) (S. Greenfield, et al.). Marie Curie (1867 1934) (F. Balibar, et al.). Albert Einstein (1879 1955) (J. Burnell, et al.). Francis Crick (1916 ) and James Watson (1928 ) (J. Watson, et al.). Where Are We Now? (I. Aleksander, et al.). Further Reading. Acknowledgments.
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