discoveries in science

Looks as signigicant scientific breakthroughs, including, radioactivity, atoms, isotopes, and more.

"Describes several scientists who went outside the box to discover scientific answers"--Provided by publisher.

Combines the use of stories and experiments to teach science through twelve readers theatre scripts that highlight significant discoveries in Western science, each including hands-on instructions for recreating the scientist's work.

Looks as signigicant scientific breakthroughs, including surgery, anesthetics, antiseptic, pain killers, contraception, and more.

The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance and error in scientific, medical and commercial innovation, outlining exactly how some of the most well-known products, gadgets and useful gizmos came to be.

"How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible-a guide for rebooting the world? Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest-or even the most basic-technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, accurately tell time, weave fibers into clothing, or even how to produce food for yourself? Regarded as one of the brightest young scientists of his generation, Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can't hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn't just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all-the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific method itself. This would allow survivors to learn technological advances not explicitly explored in The Knowledge as well as things we have yet to discover. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself"--.

Text and illustrations look at the history of scientific discoveries.

Describes important inventions throughout history and their impact on people's lives, and presents instructions for nineteen related projects, as well as over two hundred full-color photos and illustrations.

Tells the stories of thirty-five landmark scientific discoveries, each representing a "first" in its field, covering a period that ranges from 585 B.C. with the first accurate prediction of an eclipse, to the cloning of a sheep in 1996.