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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.

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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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Reviewed by Parent/Teacher

Seems like this is actually titled Heroes of the Scientific World https://archive.org/details/heroesofscientif00lond

I think for my 4th grader, this would be a big stretch even though he is a good reader.

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