This title in the familiar, slightly revamped Eyewitness series introduces the work of pioneering scientists, beginning with Aristotle and ending with Stephen Hawking. Women aren't entirely ignored, although only two are among the 30 inclusions, with one or two more briefly identified elsewhere in the text. The design is busy, but never seems crowded. Each two-page spread features an introductory paragraph summarizing a scientist's contribution with a sentence or two of personal information, a time line, and a small picture of the individual...

Aristotle

Archimedes

Zhang Heng

Alhazen

Roger Bacon

Galileo Galilei

William Harvey

Robert Hooke

Isaac Newton

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Banks

Georges Cuvier

Charles Darwin

Charles Babbage

Michael Faraday

Thomas Edison

Louis Pasteur

Dmitry Mendeleyev

Marie Curie

Ernest Rutherford

Albert Einstein

Alfred Wegener

Edwin Hubble

Crick and Watson

Alan Turing

James Lovelock

Dorothy Hodgkin

Richard Feynman

Stephen Hawking

Science and the future

Milestones in science

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The Nobel Prize

Glossary

Index