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Einstein : A Hundred Years of Relativity by Andrew Robinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
An attractive and authoritative illustrated biography of Albert Einstein containing ten essays written by major scientists and public figures. This authoritative illustrated biography will be published to mark the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis of 1905. In this year, aged 26, he published four ...Show more
The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
$100.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Thomas Young (1773-1829) was the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave not a stream of corpuscles as Newton proclaimed. In any book on the eye and vision, Young is the London physician who showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-color theory of vision confirmed only in 1959. ...Show more
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B : The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art Ser.
More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories o ...Show more
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