The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and ... - Alexander Hellemans, Bryan H. Bunch - Google Books

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"Contains over 10,000 entries organized chronologically and by discipline, interspersed with more than 100 short essays on science and technology and nine overviews of the main periods of scientific history. The flow of who discovered what -- from ancient…