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  • Measuring the Earth: Eratosthenes and His Celestial Geometry

    Mary Gow

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, June 1, 2009)
    "A biography of ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes, who used geometry to calculate the circumference of the earth. He is also known as the Father of Geography"--Provided by publisher.
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  • The Father of the Atom: Democritus and the Nature of Matter

    Katherine MacFarlane

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Sept. 1, 2009)
    These full-color biographies chronicle the lives and important contributions of great scientists and mathematicians from across the ancient world, with each book providing several hands-on activities and experiments.
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  • The Great Philosopher: Plato and His Pursuit of Knowledge

    Mary Gow

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Oct. 1, 2010)
    Plato, author of the REPUBLIC, is one of the most famous philosophers of all time. Plato explored an astounding range of topics. In his writing he investigated political theory, virtue, language, art, love, mathematics, religion, and more. Though Plato is perhaps best known for other areas of knowledge, he did make important contributions to the long process that built modern science. Even today, in works like the REPUBLIC, Plato leads us to examine what we think we know.
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  • Alexander Fleming: The Man Who Discovered Penicillin

    Salvatore Tocci

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2002)
    A biography of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin.
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  • Galileo: Astronomer and Physicist

    Paul Hightower

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 1997)
    Profiles the life of Galileo Galilei, focusing on his defense of the Copernican theory and his struggles with the Catholic Church
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  • The Greatest Mathematician: Archimedes and His Eureka! Moment

    Paul Hightower

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Sept. 1, 2009)
    These full-color biographies chronicle the lives and important contributions of great scientists and mathematicians from across the ancient world, with each book providing several hands-on activities and experiments.
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  • The Father of Anatomy: Galen and His Dissections

    Lisa Yount

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, June 1, 2009)
    Highlights the life and achievements of the ancient Greek physician whose dissections of animals led to discoveries about human anatomy, and who was the authority on medical knowledge in the Western world for many centuries.
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  • The Greatest Doctor of Ancient Times: Hippocrates and His Oath

    Mary Gow

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Sept. 1, 2009)
    These full-color biographies chronicle the lives and important contributions of great scientists and mathematicians from across the ancient world, with each book providing several hands-on activities and experiments.
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  • The Father of Geometry: Euclid and His 3-D World

    Paul Hightower

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Sept. 1, 2010)
    As we know so little about the man named Euclid, our best understanding of him is through his work. By studying his books of the ELEMENTS and their concepts, we can discover a little about how Euclid thought. We may never know if Euclid had any descendants but we do know his legacy of the ELEMENTS and its value to mathematics.
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  • Carl Linnaeus: Father of Classification

    Margaret Jean Anderson

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Aug. 1, 1997)
    Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist whose scientific naming of plants and animals provided an international language of nature
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  • The Great Thinker: Aristotle and the Foundations of Science

    Mary Gow

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Oct. 1, 2010)
    Aristotle's work was groundbreaking in many areas. Even when he was not the first person to consider certain studies, he was the first to write about several of them. Aristotle’s contributions to the development of Greek and later science were monumental. He advanced factual knowledge about fields like biology and zoology. He framed questions and suggested approaches that were built upon for centuries afterward.
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  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: First to See Microscopic Life

    Lisa Yount

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, June 1, 2008)
    Provides a biography of the cloth merchant-turned-scientist who made many discoveries examining microscopic life through microscopes he made himself.
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