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Eureka! Mike Goldsmith

Eureka! By Mike Goldsmith

Eureka! by Mike Goldsmith


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Summary

Features the stories of scientists throughout history who made discoveries that changed the way we think about the world. Packed with details of experiments and equipment, blunders and lucky escapes, this title is suitable for children around the age of 9 and over with an interest in history, science and adventure.

Eureka! Summary

Eureka!: The most amazing scientific discoveries of all time by Mike Goldsmith

This exciting, educational children's book details the real-life stories of scientists throughout history who made discoveries that changed the way we think about the world. Read about Galileo and Marie Curie, who both - in very different circumstances - risked peril during their research, or about Alexander Fleming, who discovered the power of penicillin by accident. Packed with fascinating details of experiments and equipment, blunders and lucky escapes, Eureka! will appeal to children around the age of 9 and over with an interest in history, science and adventure.

Eureka! Reviews

'Exciting and educational' - Parent Talk
'Crammed with incredible experiments, amazing discoveries, perilous blunders and lucky escapes. A fascinating, inspiring and surprising look at the history of science' - The Week Junior
'Vivid ... an exciting children's book' - Aquila Magazine

About Mike Goldsmith

Dr Mike Goldsmith was Head of Acoustics at the National Physical Laboratory from 1987 to 2007, where he researched noise, speech, language, sound and artificially intelligent machinery. He is the author of many children's science books, including Legendary Journeys: Space, Snot Collectors, Spider Ladders and Other Bonkers Inventions, Train your Brain to Be a Maths Genius and Discord: the story of noise.

Table of Contents

Scientific Discoveries; Where and When; Medicine (Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Gertrude Elion); Human Body (William Harvey, Francis Crick and James Watson); Atoms and Molecules (Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Dmitri Mendeleev, Michael Faraday); Planet Earth (Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, Alfred Wegener); The Universe (Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, George Lemaitre).

Additional information

GOR009341575
9780500292273
0500292272
Eureka!: The most amazing scientific discoveries of all time by Mike Goldsmith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
20160229
96
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Eureka!