Science

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From Galileo, tried by the Inquisition for his ideas, to Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie, forced to work apart from male students for fear she might excite them, to Louis Agassiz, who marched his colleagues up a mountain to prove that the ice ages had occurred.

Libri simili

• The scientists: a history of science told through the lives of its greatest inventors di John Gribbin (2003)
• In search of the edge of time di John Gribbin (1992)
• A World on Fire A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen di Joe Jackson (2007)
• The Weather Experiment The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future di Peter Moore (2016)
• The age of radiance: the epic rise and dramatic fall of the atomic era di Craig Nelson (2014)
• Newton: the making of genius di Patricia Fara (2011)
• To boldly go where no book has gone before: a joyous journey through all of science di Luke A. J. O'Neill (2023)
• Augustine to Galileo di A. C. Crombie (1969)
• Horizons: a global history of science di James Poskett (2022)
• Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman di James Gleick (1993)
• Erwin Schrödinger and the quantum revolution di John Gribbin (2012)
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Altri libri di John Gribbin

• In Search of Schrödinger's Cat di John Gribbin (2025)
• Quantum computing from Colossus to Qubits: the history, theory, and application of a revolutionary science di John Gribbin (2023)
• Computing with quantum cats: from Colossus to Qubits di John Gribbin (2013)
• Erwin Schrödinger and the quantum revolution di John Gribbin (2012)
• He knew he was right: the irrepressible life of James Lovelock di John Gribbin (2009)
• The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials di Mary Gribbin (2005)
• Enciclopedia di astronomia e cosmologia di John Gribbin (2005)
• L'avventura della scienza moderna di John Gribbin (2004)
• The scientists: a history of science told through the lives of its greatest inventors di John Gribbin (2003)
• Polvere di stelle di John Gribbin (2002)
• Ice Age di John Gribbin (2002)
• The first chimpanzee: in search of human origins di John Gribbin (2001)