101 discoveries : the greatest breakthroughs in history
Macinnis, P. (Peter)2009
Book
Total copies: 22
Throughout history, momentous, enabling discoveries have led to a giant leap in our understanding of the workings of the universe and fast-tracked human progress. 101 Discoveries presents in chronological order the greatest 101 breakthroughs in science and technology, medicine, and the major areas of human endeavour of the past 10,000 years, from the development of agriculture in 10,000BC to the discovery of genomics and the unravelling and manipulation of genes in living things. In identifying and describing these discoveries, this book tells the stories of the amazing people behind them, and where appropriate breaks down the complex concepts under discussion in easy-to-understand terms. 100 Discoveries presents, in engaging text and fascinating photographs, the crossing of every major intellectual, scientific, technological and cultural frontier of the past twenty millennia.
Main title:
101 discoveries : the greatest breakthroughs in history / Peter Macinnis.
Author:
Imprint:
Millers Point, N.S.W. : Pier 99, 2008.
Collation:
287 p. : ill. (part col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Bibliography (p. 271-277)
ISBN:
9781741961423 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.483
Language:
English
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BRN:
138749
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