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The Life Scientific: Explorers

Author: Anna Buckley

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2018-09-27

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1474607497

Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific 'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, Telegraph Based on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific: Explorers takes science out of its box and introduces us to the men and women who make it happen. The explorers featured in this volume include: Michele Dougherty, the mathematician who persuaded the Cassini mission to Saturn to make a diversion; Richard Fortey on his love of trilobites; Monica Grady, Meteorite Lady; neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on slicing through our thoughts; the Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis; Jocelyn Bell Burnell describing how she missed out on a Nobel Prize; Brian Cox on quantum mechanics; and Nobel Prize winner John Sulston on why he thought it would be a good idea to sequence the human genome.

Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers

Author: Various

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13:

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"Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers" by various tells the tales of some of the most important explorers in history. Columbus' voyage to America, Lewis and Clark's exploration of the west, Zebulon Pike's explorations of the Mississippi, and journeys through Manila, Mount Tyndall, and The Grand Canyon are all described in thrilling detail. Though based in facts, these tales have the excitement one would expect from an adventure novel.

Scientific Explorers

Author: Rebecca Stefoff

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780195076899

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Discusses the history of scientific exploration with emphasis on the discoveries of Captain James Cook, Charles Darwin, and Alexander von Humboldt.

Explorers of the Late Renaissance and the Enlightenment

Author: Britannica Educational Publishing

Publisher: Britanncia Educational Publishing

Published: 2013-06-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1622750292

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As the Age of Exploration came to a close, the world seemed to be a significantly smaller place than it once was, with more major landmasses identified on the global map. Yet questions and unknowns remained and details had yet to be filled in. Armed with greater knowledge and better equipment than their predecessors, explorers in the late Renaissance and Enlightenment eras took up the reins, with some discovering new routes and lands still while others carefully surveyed or settled lands already known. This lively volume details the lives of such individuals as Henry Hudson, Vitus Bering, James Cook, and Daniel Boone, among many others, as well as the explorations and discoveries of which they were a part.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

Author: Bruce Clarke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 1136950427

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With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study.

The Top Ten Explorers & Pioneers that Changed the World

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group

Published: 2009-08-30

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1435891686

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Examines ten major exploring expeditions which had an impact on the world and were intended as explorations, rather than conquest or commerce, from the first human migrations to the flight of Yuri Gagarin.