Science in 100 key breakthroughs, Paul Parsons
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Science in 100 key breakthroughs, Paul Parsons
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eng
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portraitsillustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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Science in 100 key breakthroughs
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752332905
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Paul Parsons
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Brief accounts of the key concepts and discoveries of science through world history
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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 laws 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 -- The Burgess Shale -- Superconductors -- Continental drift -- General relativity -- Insulin -- Wave-particle duality -- Schrödinger's Equation -- Penicillin -- Game theory -- Hubble's law -- Bing Bang theory -- Antimatter -- Dark matter -- Ecology -- Radar -- Computers -- Splitting the atom -- Black holes -- DNA carries genes -- Semiconductor electronics -- Information theory -- Quantum electrodynamics -- The double helix -- Miller-Urey experiment -- Transplant surgery -- 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
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