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10 Forgotten Stories of Incredible Scientists
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by Diane Lincoln (Aurora University, USA)
Science Discovery Files: 10 Forgotten Stories of Incredible Scientists tells real stories of scientific discoveries that you cannot find in textbooks or popular science books. The scientists featured are a diverse group, from female Chinese chemist Tu Youyou to William Beaumont and his handicapped assistant Alexis St. Martin, who helped pioneer studies into the human digestive system. Going beyond history, readers can also learn about the science principles behind each discovery! The backmatter includes additional information and further reading for curious readers. Scientists featured: • Walter & Luis Alvarez • Alfred Wegener • Mario Molina & Sherwood Rowland • Tu Youyou • Henri Becquerel • Florence Nightingale • William Beaumont & Alexis St. Martin • Daniel Hale Williams • Arno Penzias & Robert Wilson • Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Readership: Readers 7-12 years old. Students, parents, teachers, and homeschoolers will see it as a fresh alternative for teaching and learning science.
108pp Apr 2022 978-981-124-357-8 US$18.95 £12.99 978-981-124-402-5(pbk) US$9.95 £7.99
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, PHILOSOPHER OF TIME
by Rémy Lestienne (CNRS Paris, France)
In Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher of Time, author Rémy Lestienne mixes biographical elements and intellectual advances, from logicism to philosophies of nature. A compelling introduction to Whitehead’s demanding work, this book deciphers a metaphysical landscape often considered too abstract to be approachable, but points out the philosopher’s imperfections with respect to the scientific advances of our time.
Contents: Preface; A Brilliant Mathematician; The Point is an Abstraction: The Method of Extensive Abstraction; Whitehead in London: Philosophical Encounters; The Moment Does Not Exist: Rebuttal of Descartes and Newton’s Time; The Successive Crystallizations or “Concrescences” of the Real; Permanence of Objects, Causality, Bifurcations of the Becoming; World Solidarity and Quantum Entanglement; The Space-Time of Relativity and Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum; Process and Time; Free Will Saved from Determinism?; The Whitehead’s God; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index of Names; Glossary and Thematic Index.
Readership: Students and scholars in philosophy of science, metaphysics, history of science, and general philosophers. Suitable for a general audience with some training in science and interest in metaphysical questions, particularly about time.
