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Hardback. Etat : New. This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science - from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and science writers, provides an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Organized thematically, starting at the 'Universe', and moving smaller through the 'Earth' and 'Molecules and Matter' to 'Inside the Atom', with the final two sections looking at 'Life' and 'Body and Mind', it covers all the major scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computing, ecology, geology, medicine, neurology, physics and psychology, as well as mathematics. The Scientists will intrigue budding scientists, those fascinated by the lives of great individuals, and anyone curious to know how over the centuries we came to understand the physical world around us and inside us. …

Paperback. Etat : New.

Hardback. Etat : New. This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science - from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and science writers, provides an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Organized thematically, starting at the 'Universe', and moving smaller through the 'Earth' and 'Molecules and Matter' to 'Inside the Atom', with the final two sections looking at 'Life' and 'Body and Mind', it covers all the major scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computing, ecology, geology, medicine, neurology, physics and psychology, as well as mathematics. The Scientists will intrigue budding scientists, those fascinated by the lives of great individuals, and anyone curious to know how over the centuries we came to understand the physical world around us and inside us. …

Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition. 160 pages. Features: Connectedness with nature; The ecological imperative; Waste land; Landscape and abstraction - continuities and connections; Ambiguity as continuity and connectedness in art; Seeing nature whole; Art in search of an environment; The search for continuity in art and connectedness with nature; Truth and continuity in the nature of things; Continuity in modern architecture; The Bauhaus- Avant-Garde or tradition?; The Avant-garde in Yugoslavia 1921-1927; Symposium on systematic and constructive art; The social significance of constructive, concrete art today; Differences between European and North American constructivism; Naum Gabo - some reminiscences and an unpublished interview; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy.…