Science: A History
1534-2001
$40.44
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
7 August 2003
Summary
“This book is the product of immense learning, and a lifetime spent working out how to write in a vivacious way about science and scientists. He moves me to bestow a reviewer’s cliche I long ago vowed never to use- he has written a tour-de-force”, Robert Macfarlane, Spectator.
In this book, John Gribbin tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140297416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140297413 |
| Author: | John Gribbin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 7 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 31mm |
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About The Author
John Gribbin
John Gribbin is one of today’s greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books, including In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, Stardust and Deep Simplicity. He is famous to his many fans for making complex ideas simple, and says that his aim in his writing - much of it done with his wife, Mary Gribbin - is to share with his readers his sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe. John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.
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