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The book of big science ideas, Freya Hardy ; illustrated by Sara Mulvanny

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The book of big science ideas, Freya Hardy ; illustrated by Sara Mulvanny

Language

eng

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The book of big science ideas

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Freya Hardy ; illustrated by Sara Mulvanny

Summary

A beautifully illustrated celebration of science from the clever people who bring you AQUILA magazine. Ideas are important. They change things. A single idea can start a war, save billions of lives, even rearrange whole planetary systems, or simply make a person giggle until they pee a little bit. They can be totally wrong but widely believed, or undoubtedly right and completely ignored. What's more, they're free, and anyone can have one-including you! The Book of Big Science Ideas looks at 15 brilliant science ideas and more than 50 ingenious thinkers who have helped shape our understanding of the world - whether they were right or wrong! Thinkers include, Wang Zhenyi, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, James Joule, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Edith Clarke, Isaac Newton, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and many, many more! From established ideas like atoms, electricity and the solar system, and ideas that are still evolving such as gravity, energy and classification, right up to recent discoveries like AI and genetics - this jam-packed book takes a fresh approach to science

Target audience

juvenile

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Book of big science ideas, from atoms to AI and from gravity to genes... how science shapes our worldBig science ideas

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