Eureka!: The Most Amazing Scientific Discoveries of All Time: The most amazing scientic discoveries of all time - Hardcover

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This exciting, educational children’s book details the real-life stories of scientists throughout history who made discoveries that changed the way we think about the world. Read about Galileo and Marie Curie, who both – in very different circumstances – risked peril during their research, or about Alexander Fleming, who discovered the power of penicillin by accident. Packed with fascinating details of experiments and equipment, blunders and lucky escapes, Eureka! will appeal to children around the age of 9 and over with an interest in history, science and adventure.

Table of Contents

Scientific Discoveries; Where and When; Medicine (Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Gertrude Elion); Human Body (William Harvey, Francis Crick and James Watson); Atoms and Molecules (Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Dmitri Mendeleev, Michael Faraday); Planet Earth (Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, Alfred Wegener); The Universe (Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, George Lemaître)