The Dawn of Science Glimpses from History for the Curious Mind /

• Main Authors: Padmanabhan, Thanu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Padmanabhan, Vasanthi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Physics.; Medicine-History.; Chemistry-History.; Biology-History.; Popular Science in Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Medicine.; History of Chemistry.; History of Biology.

This lucid and captivating book takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton - covering the period which can legitimately be called the "dawn" of the sciences. Each of the 24 chapters focuses on a particula...