The Great Scientists: From Euclid to Stephen Hawking
- ISBN-10
- 1782120394
- ISBN-13
- 9781782120391
- Category
- Science
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-06-06
- Publisher
- Arcturus Publishing
- Authors
- John Farndon, Anne Rooney, Alex Woolf
Description
From skyscrapers to jet aircraft, from mobile phones to computers, the products of modern science surround us on all sides. Perhaps the most significant product of science, however, is not the microwave, or the space station or the widescreen TV; it is the scientific method itself. Those societies that have actively embraced this method have ...
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