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100 1 _aBynum, W. F.
_q(William F.),
_d1943-
_eauthor
245 1 2 _aA little history of science /
_cWilliam Bynum.
260 _aNew Haven, Conn. :
_bYale University Press,
_c2013.
300 _avi, 263 p. :
_bill. ;
_c22 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: 2012.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aIn the beginning -- Needles and numbers -- Atoms and the void -- The father of medicine: Hippocrates -- The master of those who know: Aristotle -- The emperor's doctor: Galen -- Science in Islam -- Out of darkness -- Searching for the philosopher's stone -- Uncovering the human body -- Where is the centre of the universe? -- Leaning towers and telescopes: Galileo -- Round and round: Harvey -- Knowledge is power: Bacon and Descartes -- The "new chemistry" -- What goes up...: Newton -- Bright sparks -- The clockwork universe -- Ordering the world -- Airs and gases -- Tiny pieces of matter -- Forces, fields and magnetism -- Digging up dinosaurs -- The history of our planet -- The greatest show on Earth -- Little boxes of life -- Coughs, sneezes and diseases -- Engines and energy -- Tabling the elements -- Into the atom -- Radioactivity -- The game-changer: Einstein -- Moving continents -- What do we inherit? -- Where did we come from? -- Wonder drugs -- Building blocks -- Reading "the book of life": theHuman Genome Project -- The big bang -- Science in our digital age.
650 0 _aScience
_xHistory.
650 0 _aScience and civilization.
650 0 _aDiscoveries in science
_xHistory.
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