Giants of science (Viking)
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
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English
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Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children's ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a scientist.
2) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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What was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just "by thinking on it," he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity.Yet Newton was so small-minded that he set out to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings. Here is a compelling portrait of Newton, contradictions and all, that places him against the backdrop of 17th-century...
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
4) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Publisher
Viking Children's Book
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Krull presents another top-notch scientific biography in the outstanding Giants of Science series.
As in previous series entries, this offering manages to take a wildly complex subject-atomic physics-and render it comprehensible to the child listener, emphasizing the legacy Curie left behind. Curie's personal life-her unusual (for the times) partnership with her husband, her frustration with the limitations imposed on her because of her sex, her...
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.