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Scientists can change the world! Sir Isaac Newton's experiments helped us understand mass. This title introduces budding scientists and engineers to Sir Isaac Newton whose discoveries changed the course of science. Photos and illustrations bring the stories of this great mind to life, and a quiz lets readers test their newfound knowledge. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles....
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The extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China--long the world's most technologically advanced country. This married Englishman, a freethinking intellectual, while working at Cambridge University in 1937, fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair. He became fascinated with China, and embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions...
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Documents the life and work of Joseph Priestly who by the 1780s had established himself as not only a world-renowned scientist, but also a prominent religious figure and forthright political thinker. Explores his work on ecosystem science and the discovery of oxygen as well as his founding of the Unitarian movement, and traces how his move to Pennsylvania (after being chased out of England by an angry mob) influenced the course of early American history....
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"Isaac Newton, an English physicist and mathematician, made many significant contributions to the scientific revolution of the 17th century. This book discusses Newton's three laws of motion and provides readers with biographical information relevant to his scientific and mathematical discoveries. Photographs and illustrations from the period of study further demonstrate the STEM concepts required for Newton to arrive at his discoveries while fact...
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From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on the soles of walking boots, forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire uses her decades of scientific expertise to find often-overlooked clues left behind by criminal activity. She detects evidence and eliminates hypotheses armed with little more than a microscope, eventually developing a compelling thesis of the who, what, how, and when of a crime. Wiltshire's remarkable accuracy has made her one...
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In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy maker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor,...