Contains hundreds of alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on significant discoveries, inventions, and figures in the history of science between 4,000 B.C.E. and 500 C.E.
The life of the seventeenth-century scientist best known for his analysis of pressure and volume in gases and for his example to fellow scientists in sharing his discoveries with them.
A biography of the early nineteenth-century German chemist whose teaching and laboratory methods widely influenced the development of the science of chemistry.
