Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Tim - GoodreadsI'm about half way through the book at this writing. I am a big fan of the layout of this book. The book in whole is a case-by-case synopsis of arguably the 100 most profound scientific laws from ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Sarah S - GoodreadsArchimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - David Brewer - GoodreadsI really wanted to like this book, but at the end of the day I found it quite a slog to make it through. It read more like a series of encyclopedia entries and excerpts from Bartlett's Familiar ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Chris Mallows - GoodreadsAlex's Review: Alex Knapp in Forbes: I simply cannot say enough good things about this book. It has a very simple structure: chronologically, Pickover walks through some of the most famous eponymous ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Sarah - GoodreadsVery nice, succinct and entertaining summary of many great physical laws and bios of the scientists - several laws I didn't recognize, but some were not there that I thought should be - like only ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Terry - GoodreadsWaste of time. The book is poorly constructed with a preface that tells nothing. Some statistics on origins of personal laws by nation/century/sex et al are quaint but otherwise this book is analogous ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Courtney - GoodreadsThe author did an excellent job of combining both an explanation of the science with biographical information about the scientist. Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Pete - GoodreadsA most interesting book. I've noticed that, in the world of physics, there is a certain celebration of celebrity and interest in the character and life of great physicists. This book has all that, but ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Janet Dougherty - GoodreadsI bought this book for Ian to read and I started reading it. Very interesting Leggi recensione completa
Review: Great Laws of Science and the Minds Behind them: From Archimedes to Hawking
Recensione dell'utente - Chris Dawson - GoodreadsExcellent book - if you want to have a primer on what you learned at school! I really liked it Leggi recensione completa
