On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries From Archimedes to DNA by Melvyn Bragg, Ruth Gardiner

On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries From Archimedes to DNA

Melvyn Bragg, Ruth Gardiner

365 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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The fascinating story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincaré, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick and W...

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