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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Parsons, Paul, 1971- author.     Subjects     Discoveries in science -- History -- Popular works.     Science -- History -- Popular works.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Parsons, Paul, 1971- author.       by title:      Science in 100 key b...         MARC Display

Science in 100 key breakthroughs [electronic resource] / Paul Parsons. by Parsons, Paul, 1971- author. New York : Quercus, c2011. Subjects Discoveries in science -- History -- Popular works.   Science -- History -- Popular works. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=DBCB1ECA-2256-4C04-ADE8-1B1F58B6563C This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{DBCB1ECA-2256-4C04-ADE8-1B1F58B6563C}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781623652685 (electronic bk.) 1623652685 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource : color illustrations Contents:  Counting -- Geometry -- Curvature of the Earth -- Astrometry -- Algebra -- Aviation -- Scientific method -- Heliocentric solar system -- Human anatomy -- Kepler's laws -- Astronomical telescope -- Calculus -- Newton's Principia -- Linnaean taxonomy -- Kinetic theory -- Principle of least action -- Galaxies -- Bayes's theorem -- Combustion -- Photosynthesis -- Deep time -- Conservation laws -- Vaccination -- Electricity -- Wave theory of light -- Atomic theory -- Molecules -- Navier-Stokes equations -- Greenhouse effect -- Ice ages -- Cell theory -- Anaesthetics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Foucault's pendulum -- Natural selection -- Spectroscopy -- Maxwell's equations -- Germ theory -- Mendel's law of inheritance -- Antiseptics -- Periodic table -- Out of Africa -- Nervous system -- X-rays -- Radioactivity -- Vitamins -- Viruses -- Rocket science -- Photons -- Special relativity -- Earth's core -- Radiometric dating -- Burgess shale -- Superconductors -- Continental drift -- General relativity -- Insulin -- Wave-particle duality -- Schrödiger's equation -- Penicillin -- Game theory -- Hubble's law -- Big bang theory -- Antimatter -- Dark matter -- Ecology -- Radar -- Computers -- Splitting the atom -- Black holes -- DNA carries genes -- Semiconductor electronics -- Information theory -- Quantum electrodynamics -- Double helix -- Lasers -- Parallel universes -- Chaos theory -- Quasars -- Higgs boson -- Cognitive psychology -- String theory -- Genetic engineering -- Hawking radiation -- Death of the dinosaurs -- Scanning tunnelling microscope -- Quantum entanglement -- Fullerenes -- Gene therapy -- Functional MRI scanners -- Evidence-based medicine -- Extrasolar planets -- Fermat's last theorem -- Cloning -- Deep blue beats Kasparov -- Human genome -- Large Hadron Collider -- Synthetic life. Requests:  0 Summary:  In 100 bite-size sections, "Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs" encapsulates the history of Western science, from astronomy and physics to geology, biology and psychology -- and everything in between. Starting with the origins of counting more than 35,000 years ago, the book tells the rich and fascinating story of inspired inventions and how gradual progress and inspired leaps of imagination advanced science.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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