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A little history of science /
"Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers thro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.