From award-winning science writer John Gribbin, "Science: A History" is the enth
ralling story of the men and women who changed the way we see the world, and the
turbulent times they lived in. From Galileo, tried by the Inquisition for his i
deas, to Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie
, forced to work apart from male students for fear she might excite them, to Lou
is Agassiz, who marched his colleagues up a mountain to prove that the ice ages
had occurred. Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is
the history of science as it has never been told before.
