Stories of the Great Scientists
by Charles Gibson Author
This book provides a thoughtful account of the lives of more than a dozen of the most important scientists of the ancient world, and the modern era, up to the end of the 19th century. The author has 'taken all possible care to state only facts that are reliable, and, whenever possible, to dispel popular errors that have arisen' in the retelling of the lives of these scientists who include Roger Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Franklin, Copernicus, Priestly, Dalton, Herschel and many others. Especially interesting is his account of many of the ancient scientists from Pythagoras to Ptolemy.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- online book
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 31
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 8th
- Written
- 1921
Chapters
- 1 Heroes of Science
- 2 Before the Time of Christ
- 3 Two Thousand Years Ago
- 4 Roger Bacon
- 5 Copernicus and his Theory
- 6 Tycho Brache
- 7 Johann Kepler
- 8 Galileo Galilei
- 9 Galileo and the Inquisition
- 10 Galileo's Private Life
- 11 Sir Isaac Newton
- 12 More about Newton
- 13 Benjamin Franklin
- 14 Franklin as a Scientist
- 15 Joseph Priestly
- 16 Henry Cavendish
- 17 William Herschel
- 18 Herschel and Astronomer
- 19 John Dalton
- 20 Sir Humphrey Davy
- 21 Davy Goes to London
- 22 Micheal Faraday
- 23 Charles Darwin
- 24 Lord Kelvin
- 25 Kelvin and the Atlantic Cable
- 26 Kelvin and his Students
- 27 James Clerk Maxwell
- 28 A Grand March Past
- 29 Conclusion
- 30 Appendex I:Galileo Letter
- 31 Appendex II:Scientists
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