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SynopsisThe Great Scientists is a lavishly-illustrated collection of essays, each devoted to one of history's greatest scientists.From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific disciplines are represented here. Each essay gives a biographical background for its subject and a description of the main themes of their work, together with concise expositions of some of their key ideas.The thirty-four chronologically-organized essays in this book add up to a biography of science itself. ... Read more

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Great Scientists:from Euclid to Stephen Hawking
Excellent resource!!!Easy and enjoyable to read for both adults and kids.Each Scientist is presented in a uniquely human way.Most resources give facts and can be dry and remote, this book is the opposite. ... Read more

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This book begins with a close consideration of a fundamental issue of world history, namely, the mustering of sufficient grounds or reasons for effectively dealing with the world. In the course of that beginning, it listens carefully to the attempts in this area by three prominent thinkers of the recent past, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl and Jacques Derrida. From there it proceeds to work through factors of intentional consciousness misplayed by the three abovementioned stalwarts and ignored by a surprising percentage of the population. Along the way, it draws upon the efforts in this regard by novelist, Marcel Proust, physicists, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, John Gribbin and David Darling, choreographers, George Balanchine and David Parsons, graphic designer, A.M. Cassandre, composer, Olivier Messiaen, Bill Evans, jazz pianist and composer, and film directors, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Robert and Luc Dardenne, Agnes Varda and Billy Wilder. ... Read more

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New realms of the problematic
If, like me, you have painful misgivings about centers of power dominating our history, namely, religion, science and humanism, this is a book you must read. Clark teases a quite amazing concerted illuminative action from the work of such seemingly exclusive figures as Heidegger, Proust, Balanchine, Antonioni and Hawking.And in pressing their insights into concrete historical action, he introduces undreamed of realms of problematicness and joy.
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