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Science Year by Year: A Visual History, From Stone Tools to Space Travel
Packed with fascinating discoveries and facts, "Science Year by Year" takes kids on a fantastic visual journey through time, from stone tools and simple machines to rockets and robots.
Easy-to-follow illustrated timelines of pivotal scientific developments explore the ideas, experiments, and technologies that have shaped our daily lives over the past 2.5 million years. With more than 1,200 images, in-depth explanations of key inventors and innovations, quotes from groundbreaking scientists like Marie Curie, and stunning "moment in time" images of key events such as the first human landing on the moon, kids are sure to be amazed on every page. Young readers can learn about the early understanding of gravity, the discovery of dinosaur fossils, the first open heart surgery in human history, and much more.
Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, "Science Year by Year" will fascinate kids as they go on an amazing journey through time, tracing key moments in the history of science and technology along the way.
Easy-to-follow illustrated timelines of pivotal scientific developments explore the ideas, experiments, and technologies that have shaped our daily lives over the past 2.5 million years. With more than 1,200 images, in-depth explanations of key inventors and innovations, quotes from groundbreaking scientists like Marie Curie, and stunning "moment in time" images of key events such as the first human landing on the moon, kids are sure to be amazed on every page. Young readers can learn about the early understanding of gravity, the discovery of dinosaur fossils, the first open heart surgery in human history, and much more.
Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, "Science Year by Year" will fascinate kids as they go on an amazing journey through time, tracing key moments in the history of science and technology along the way.
288 pages, Hardcover
Published March 7, 2017
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Clive Gifford
785 books38 followersClive Gifford is a highly experienced journalist and author with over 170 books published and more than 800 features and stories written for adults and children.
Clive is an unusual author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps this reflects his unusual life which, so far, has seen him travel to over 70 countries, be held hostage in Colombia, go parachuting, coach several sports and run a computer games company.
He says: "What drives me more than anything else is the desire to communicate, entertain and inform through the written word."
Clive is an unusual author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps this reflects his unusual life which, so far, has seen him travel to over 70 countries, be held hostage in Colombia, go parachuting, coach several sports and run a computer games company.
He says: "What drives me more than anything else is the desire to communicate, entertain and inform through the written word."
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January 30, 2024
This book is an encyclopedia that introduces the history of science from the Stone Age, 6,000 years before the birth of chemistry, to the present day.
Around the Egyptian civilization, humans began to use art and religion as motifs for more and more items, and by the Greek and Roman civilizations, anatomy, medicine, and astronomy had developed.
The Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci demonstrated his talent in other fields, including art (Mona Lisa), anatomy, geology, geography, architecture, engineering, and even as a military engineer.
In the 14th century, people in Italy began to take an interest in the Greek language, and the city of Renaissance Florence became the world's center of learning.
The reason why chemistry has developed to the present day all stems from human curiosity.
I would like to follow the example of the scientists who came before me and always cherish my curiosity and take on new challenges.
Around the Egyptian civilization, humans began to use art and religion as motifs for more and more items, and by the Greek and Roman civilizations, anatomy, medicine, and astronomy had developed.
The Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci demonstrated his talent in other fields, including art (Mona Lisa), anatomy, geology, geography, architecture, engineering, and even as a military engineer.
In the 14th century, people in Italy began to take an interest in the Greek language, and the city of Renaissance Florence became the world's center of learning.
The reason why chemistry has developed to the present day all stems from human curiosity.
I would like to follow the example of the scientists who came before me and always cherish my curiosity and take on new challenges.
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