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02707aam a2200433Ia 4500 001 D5B7536CCC5111E8987A620997128E48 003 SILO 005 20181010010024 008 070716s2007 nyuac 001 0ceng d 020 $a 9780760791974 020 $a 076079197X 035 $a (OCoLC)155843441 040 $a DAJ $b eng $c DAJ $d OCLCG $d CHA $d BUR $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCA $d AL5CW $d SILO 050 4 $a Q141.F3 $b 2007 082 04 $a 920 $b Far 100 1 $a Farndon, John. 245 14 $a The great scientists : $b from Euclid to Stephen Hawking / $c John Farndon ; and Alex Woolf, Anne Rooney, Liz Gogerly. 260 $a New York : $b Metro Books, $c 2007. 300 $a 160 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; $c 26 cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific disciplines are represented here. Each entry gives a biographical background of its subject and a description of the main themes of their work, together with concise expositions of some of their key ideas."--Publisher. 505 0 $a The ancients: Euclid ; Archimedes ; Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy -- The Middle Ages: The medieval Arab scientists -- The Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci ; Nicolas Copernicus ; Andreas Vesalius ; Galileo Galilei -- The seventeenth century: Christiaan Huygens ; Anton van Leeuwenhoek ; Robert Hooke ; Sir Isaac Newton -- The eighteenth century: Carolus Linnaeus ; James Hutton ; Antoine Lavoisier ; John Dalton -- The nineteenth century: Michael Faraday ; Charles Babbage ; Charles Darwin ; Louis Pasteur ; Gregor Mendel ; Dmitri Mendeleyev ; James Clerk Maxwell -- The twentieth century: Max Planck ; Marie Curie ; Ernest Rutherford ; Albert Einstein ; Alfred Wegener ; Niels Bohr ; Edwin Hubble ; Werner Heisenberg ; Linus Pauling ; The DNA team: Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin ; Stephen Hawking. 650 0 $a Science $x History. 650 0 $a Scientists $v Biography. 650 7 $a Science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108176 650 7 $a Scientists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108895 650 7 $a Science. $2 unknown 650 7 $a Scientists. $2 unknown 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biography. $2 unknown 655 7 $a History. $2 unknown 700 1 $a Woolf, Alex, $d 1964- 700 1 $a Rooney, Anne. 700 1 $a Gogerly, Liz. 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20181010011335.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D5B7536CCC5111E8987A620997128E48 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search