SuitabookScience
Jon Balchin
- Reading
- Browse a few profiles from different fields, then compare how each scientist’s work is explained. This can help you decide whether to read entries in sequence or follow particular areas of interest.
- Themes
- Scientific discovery and its effects: The book traces discoveries and their effects, including beneficial medicines and technologies as well as dangerous developments such as the machine gun and atom bomb. Scientific work is presented through its influence on human life and understanding, with both beneficial and dangerous outcomes included.
- Profiles as a route through science history: One hundred entries present scientists’ lives and work, with a span described from Anaximander to Stephen Hawking and discoveries from Pythagoras’ theorem to relativity. The profile structure uses individual lives and discoveries to organise a broad account of scientific history.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes dangerous developments such as the machine gun and atom bomb alongside beneficial medicines and discoveries. Their treatment may be worth checking if you want to know how much attention these subjects receive.