Science: A History

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From award-winning science writer John Gribbin Science: A History" is the enthralling story of the men & women who changed the way we see the world & the turbulent times they lived in. From Galileo tried by the Inquisition for his ideas to Newton who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie forced to work apart from male students for fear she might excite them to Louis Agassiz who marched his colleagues up a mountain to prove that the ice ages had occurred. Filled with pioneers visionaries eccentrics & madmen this is the history of science as it has never been told before. " Gripping & entertaining... Wonderfully & pleasurably accessible". (" Independent on Sunday"). " Tremendous.. .moves me to bestow a reviewer's cliche I long ago vowed never to use: a tour de force". (" Spectator"). "A magnificent history.. .enormously entertaining". (" Daily Telegraph"). "A splendid book.. .demolishes innumerable myths & exposes the factual roots of some of science's well known tales (for example Galileo never dropped weights of different sizes from Pisa's leaning tower)". (" Economist"). " We experience his subjects' triumphs & failures as if we knew them personally...I found myself whizzing through the pages". (" Sunday Telegraph"). John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science & the author of bestselling books including " In Search of Schrodinger's Cat" " Stardust Science: A History" & " In Search of the Multiverse". Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University & is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex."