The Book of Big Science Ideas

The Book of Big Science Ideas
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Total Pages : 83
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ISBN-10 : 9781782407386
ISBN-13 : 1782407383
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Book Synopsis The Book of Big Science Ideas by : Freya Hardy

Download or read book The Book of Big Science Ideas written by Freya Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated celebration of science from the clever people who bring you AQUILA magazine. Ideas are important. They change things. A single idea can start a war, save billions of lives, even rearrange whole planetary systems, or simply make a person giggle until they pee a little bit. They can be totally wrong but widely believed, or undoubtedly right and completely ignored. What's more, they're free, and anyone can have one-including you! The Book of Big Science Ideas looks at 15 brilliant science ideas and more than 50 ingenious thinkers who have helped shape our understanding of the world - whether they were right or wrong! Thinkers include, Wang Zhenyi, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, James Joule, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Edith Clarke, Isaac Newton, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and many, many more! From established ideas like atoms, electricity and the solar system, and ideas that are still evolving such as gravity, energy and classification, right up to recent discoveries like AI and genetics - this jam-packed book takes a fresh approach to science.


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