What's the point of science?
Aves, Edward2021
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This title shows you where science started, why it matters now, and the jaw-dropping places it may lead us to in the future. It will change the way you think about science forever! Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations show you how history's most ingenious and daring scientists solved mysteries that had puzzled the ancient world for millennia, triggering an age of discovery that gave us telescopes, flying machines, steam engines, antibiotics, electricity, radio, space travel, and computers. Discover the amazing men and women who challenged conventional thinking and put their lives at risk to learn about everything, from planetary orbits and gold to germs, and from gunpowder to radioactivity.
Main title:
What's the point of science? / illustrator, Clarisse Hassan ; writers, Edward Aves, Ben Ffrancon Davies, A.M. Dassu.
Imprint:
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2021.London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2021.
Collation:
127 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780241381847 (hbk)
Dewey class:
509
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2524159