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Lavoisier in the Year One : Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution by Madison Smartt Bell
$18.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Great Discoveries Ser.
Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing a new terminology. Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative reads like a race, as the circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation - a considerable fortune and social connect ...Show more
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science by Lawrence M. Krauss
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Great Discoveries
Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics. In this gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and curious character), Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and bestselling author, offers a rollicking narrative coupled with clear a ...Show more
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science by Lawrence M. Krauss
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Great Discoveries
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biogr ...Show more
THE EARTH MOVES by HOFSTADTER DAN
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Great Discoveries
Celebrated, controversial, condemned, Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. Both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein credit him as the first modern scientist. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in the history of the conflict between scien ...Show more
The Georgian Star by Michael D. Lemonick
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Great Discoveries Ser.
Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded other groundbreaking work that affects how we see the world today. The Herschel ...Show more
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