A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the Lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger\'s Cat In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked.
He begins with Copernicus, during the Renaissance, when Science replaced mysticism as a means of explaining the work.
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the Lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger\'s Cat In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked