A little history of science
- ISBN: 9780300283211
- Editorial: Yale University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: New Haven. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Little Histories
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 20 cm
- Nº Pág.: 272
- Idiomas: Español
A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages
Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our planet. From Hippocrates and Aristotle to Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, men and women have asked how things work, and through experiments have made earth-shattering discoveries.
This inviting Litte History takes readers to the stars. We delve beneath the surface of the planet, chart the evolution of chemistry's periodic table, and explore the physics that explain electricity, gravity, and the atoms that make up our bodies and everything around us.
Little Histories - Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
In the beginning
Needles and numbers
Atoms and the void
The father of medicine: Hippocrates
'The master of those who know': Aristotle
The emperor's doctor: Galen
Science in Islam
Out of the darkness
Searching for the philosopher's stone
Uncovering the human body
Where is the centre of the universe?
Leaning towers and telescopes: Galileo
Round and round: Harvey
Knowledge is power: Bacon and Descartes
The 'new chemistry'
What goes up ... : Newton
Bright sparks
The clockwork universe
Ordering the world
Airs and gases
Tiny pieces of matter
Forces, fields and magnetism
Digging up dinosaurs
The history of our planet
The greatest show on Earth
Little boxes of life
Coughs, sneezes and diseases
Engines and energy
Tabling the elements
Into the atom
Radioactivity
The game-changer: Einstein
Moving continents
What do we inherit?
Where did we come from?
Wonder drugs
Building blocks
Reading 'the book of life': the Human Genome Project
The Big Bang
Science in our digital age
