Eureka! - Mike Goldsmith

Eureka!

The most amazing scientific discoveries of all time

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
96 Seiten
2016
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-29227-3 (ISBN)
11,15 inkl. MwSt
Features the stories of scientists throughout history who made discoveries that changed the way we think about the world. Packed with details of experiments and equipment, blunders and lucky escapes, this title is suitable for children around the age of 9 and over with an interest in history, science and adventure.
This exciting, educational children’s book details the real-life stories of scientists throughout history who made discoveries that changed the way we think about the world. Read about Galileo and Marie Curie, who both – in very different circumstances – risked peril during their research, or about Alexander Fleming, who discovered the power of penicillin by accident. Packed with fascinating details of experiments and equipment, blunders and lucky escapes, Eureka! will appeal to children around the age of 9 and over with an interest in history, science and adventure.

Dr Mike Goldsmith was Head of Acoustics at the National Physical Laboratory from 1987 to 2007, where he researched noise, speech, language, sound and artificially intelligent machinery. He is the author of many children’s science books, including Legendary Journeys: Space, Snot Collectors, Spider Ladders and Other Bonkers Inventions, Train your Brain to Be a Maths Genius and Discord: the story of noise.

Scientific Discoveries; Where and When; Medicine (Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Gertrude Elion); Human Body (William Harvey, Francis Crick and James Watson); Atoms and Molecules (Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Dmitri Mendeleev, Michael Faraday); Planet Earth (Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, Alfred Wegener); The Universe (Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, George Lemaître).

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 195 x 260 mm
Gewicht 420 g
Themenwelt Kinder- / Jugendbuch Sachbücher Naturwissenschaft / Technik
Kinder- / Jugendbuch Sachbücher Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
ISBN-10 0-500-29227-2 / 0500292272
ISBN-13 978-0-500-29227-3 / 9780500292273
Zustand Neuware
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