Goldsmith, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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Summary: A tribute to the scientific contributions of William Herschel and his pioneering sister, Caroline, describes their establishment of surveying techniques that are still in use, Caroline's cataloging of nebulae, and William's discovery of infrared radiation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2009
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Summary: Analyzes how doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical field led to his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his work contributed to the establishment of germ theory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2003
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Summary: Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/Norton 2006
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Summary: "An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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Summary: How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy; their champion was the strong-willed astronomer Harlow Shapley. Another camp believed that the universe was so vast that the Milky Way was just one galaxy among billions--the view that would prevail, proven by the equally headstrong Edwin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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Summary: David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there is more than one kind of infinity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003