'A spectacularly fine and successful work of its kind. It is based on vast learning. It communicates scientific problems and investigations with command, clarity, expertise, and unflagging energy. I found it a deeply absorbing read. Certain narrative passages are quite brilliant. Gribbin knows how to make science come alive, without hype or melodrama. This is partly because he is a past-master of the thumbnail-sketch biography. So many scientists here come alive! I know no other up-to-date single-volume history of science of this kind. I feel sure it will have a wide and enthusiastic general-reader audience' - Roy Porter
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'A spectacularly fine and successful work of its kind. It is based on vast learning. It communicates scientific problems and investigations with command, clarity, expertise, and unflagging energy. I found it a deeply absorbing read. Certain narrative passages are quite brilliant. Gribbin knows how to make science come alive, without hype or melodrama. This is partly because he is a past-master of the thumbnail-sketch biography. So many scientists here come alive! I know no other up-to-date single-volume history of science of this kind. I feel sure it will have a wide and enthusiastic general-reader audience' - Roy Porter
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Höhe: 242 mm
Breite: 162 mm
Dicke: 59 mm
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978-0-7139-9503-9 (9780713995039)
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John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of many Penguins. This book is his greatest achievement.
Book 1 Out of the Dark Ages: Renaissance men; the last mystics; the first scientists. Book 2 The founding fathers: science finds its feet; the "Newtonian revolution"; expanding horizons; Book 3 The enlightenment: enlightened science I - chemistry catches up; enlightened science II - progress on all fronts. Book 4 The big picture: the "Darwinian revolution"; atoms and molecules; let there be light; the last hurrah! of classical science. Book 5 Modern times: inner space; the realm of life; outer space.
