The Great Scientists: From Euclid to Stephen Hawking
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Synopsis
A book about scientists from Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptolemy to Faraday, Darwin, and Hawking, and the science they invented or practiced.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- 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
- Index