Defining Moments in Science: Over a Century of the Greatest Scientists, Discoveries, Inventions and Events That Rocked the Scientific World by Dr. Andrew Impey
DISCLAIMER: I can't review this in any impartial way, as I wrote a small chunk of it!
Defining Moments in Science was written by a team of around 60 science writers, edited by the team at Null Hypothesis (www.null-hypothesis.co.uk) and is a hefty, glossy book containing a vast and varied collection of moments in science, each described in a few hundred words.
Covering discoveries, inventions, publications and key people from Sigmund Freud to Stephen Hawking, you can flip through this book and find interesting facts on every page.
Illustrated by a big selection of quality photos, it's also well-researched: you wouldn't be embarrassed if a scientist friend found this on your coffee table.
All in all, it's fab. And I'm not just saying that because I wrote some of it -- I don't get the royalties!
Defining Moments in Science was written by a team of around 60 science writers, edited by the team at Null Hypothesis (www.null-hypothesis.co.uk) and is a hefty, glossy book containing a vast and varied collection of moments in science, each described in a few hundred words.
Covering discoveries, inventions, publications and key people from Sigmund Freud to Stephen Hawking, you can flip through this book and find interesting facts on every page.
Illustrated by a big selection of quality photos, it's also well-researched: you wouldn't be embarrassed if a scientist friend found this on your coffee table.
All in all, it's fab. And I'm not just saying that because I wrote some of it -- I don't get the royalties!