The Science Book

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DK LONDON PROJECT ART EDITOR Katie Cavanagh SENIOR EDITOR Georgina Palffy US EDITOR Jane Perlmutter US SENIOR EDITOR Margaret Pa ...

ADAM HART-DAVIS, CONSULTANT EDITOR Adam Hart-Davis trained as a chemist at the universities of Oxford and York, and Alberta, Can ...

10 INTRODUCTION THE BEGINNING OF SCIENCE 600 BCE–1400 CE 20 Eclipses of the Sun can be predicted Thales of Miletus 21 Now hear t ...

EXPANDING HORIZONS 1700 – 74 Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds Carl Linnaeus 76 The heat that disappears in the conver ...

136 Light travels more slowly in water than in air Léon Foucault 138 Living force may be converted into heat James Joule 139 Sta ...

250 95 percent of the universe is missing Fritz Zwicky 252 A universal computing machine Alan Turing 254 The nature of the chemi ...

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12 S cience is an ongoing search for truth—a perpetual struggle to discover how the universe works that goes back to the earlies ...

13 20th-century philosopher of science Karl Popper pointed out, it can only disprove things. Every experiment that gives predict ...

14 House of Wisdom In the late 8th century CE, the Abbasid caliphate set up the House of Wisdom, a magnificent library, in its n ...

15 suggest that each element consisted of unique atoms, and propose the idea of atomic weights. Then German chemist August Kekul ...

THE BEG OF SCIE 600 BCE –14O0 CE ...

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18 T he scientific study of the world has its roots in Mesopotamia. Following the invention of agriculture and writing, people h ...