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David Ellyard
ISBN: 9781877069222
Format: Hardback
Publisher:New Holland Publishers
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An introduction to the growth of scientific knowledge over the last 500 years. It sets important discoveries in a context of time and place, and introduces the reader to the people who brought them to life. Along the way, it provides a framework for understanding the concepts and theories, which collectively form our modern scientific view.
An absorbing introduction to the growth of scientific knowledge over the last 500 years. It sets important discoveries in a context of time and place, and introduces the reader to the people who brought them to life. Along the way, it provides a framework for understanding the concepts and theories which collectively form our modern scientific view. Entries are arranged chronologically from around 1500 to the present day. This book can be used as a question and answer book, as a book for dipping into, as an overview of a particular discipline or the work of a particular scientists, or it can be simply read as the unfolding story of discovery.
| ISBN | 1877069221 | | Pages | 400 | | ISBN13 | 9781877069222
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | New Holland Publishers | | Weight (grammes) | 971 | | Imprint | New Holland Publishers | | Published in | Frenchs Forest | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Publication date | 30 Nov 2005 | | Width (mm) | 165 | | DEWEY | 509 | | Spine width (mm) | 34 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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