Pythagoras of Samos -- Hippocrates -- Euclid of Alexandria -- Archimedes of Syracuse -- Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- Alhazen (Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham) -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Tycho Brahe -- Francis Bacon -- Galileo Galilei -- Johannes Kepler -- William Harvey -- Isaac Newton -- Gottfried Leibniz -- Émilie du Châtelet -- Carolus Linnaeus -- Mikhail Lomonosov -- James Hutton -- James Watt -- Antoine Lavoisier -- Edward Jenner -- John Dalton -- William Smith -- Michael Faraday -- Charles Darwin -- Ada Lovelace -- Ignaz Semmelweis -- Gregor Mendel -- Louis Pasteur -- Bernhard Riemann -- James Clerk Maxwell -- Marie Curie -- Lise Meitner -- Albert Einstein -- Aflfred Wegener -- Erwin Schröedinger -- Edwin Hubble -- Hoard Florey -- Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin -- Werner Heisenberg -- Rachel Carson -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -- Alan Turing -- Jonas Salk -- James Lovelock -- Rosalind Franklin -- Stephen Hawking -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- James Henson.
Summary:
Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking--we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety over his battle with the Vatican, but did you know that this "father of modern science" was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but his bold curiosity extended to the dinner table as well. (And how many people can say they've eaten an owl!) In Eureka! John Grant--author of Debunk It!, Discarded Science, Spooky Science and many others--offers fifty vivid portraits of groundbreaking scientists. From lutes and owls to astronomy and evolution, Eureka! explains how these scientific geniuses have shaped our understanding--and how they spent their free time as well.
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