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Many of the following books are from the IMMORTALS OF SCIENCE series
byFranklin Watts publisher. *
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, PIONEER CHEMIST(1733-1804), IMMORTALS OF SCIENCE, by
Rebecca Marcus, HB, 1961 , Franklin Watts, xschool, 145 pp, vg cond,
''$12
MICHAEL FARADAY AND THE ELECTRIC DYNAMO, Immortals of Science, by May,
Franklin Watts, hb, xlib, exc cond, pictorial cover, 1961, "Michael
Faraday was a blacksmith's son who became one of the world's most honored
scientists. He received his start in science by presenting a well bound
book of Humphry Davy's lecture notes to Davy himself. He also asked to be
the famous scientist's apprentice, and was hired." $12
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND ELECTROMAGNETISM, May, Immortals of Science,
Franklin Watts, hb, xlib, exc cond, 1962, $16
ROBERT KOCH, FATHER OF BACTERIOLOGY, by Knight, hb with dj, xlib, vg
cond, 165 pp, Franklin Watts, looks just like the Immortals of Science
series but it doesn't say this- rather it says a first biography, later
editions call it an Immortals of Science series, same author as Kepler,
165 pp, $12
JOHANNES KEPLER AND PLANETARY MOTION, IMMORTALS OF SCIENCE, hb, by
Knight, 1962, xlib, vg cond, 186 pp, $12
LEONARDO DA VINCI, PATHFINDER OF SCIENCE, Immortals of Science, Franklin
Watts, Gillette, 1962, exc cond, xlib, $12
WILLIAM HARVEY, TRAILBLAZER OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE, IMMORTALS OF SCIENCE
, by Rebecca Marcus, Franklin Watts 1962, hb, xlib, exc cond, 127
pp,''$12
PLANT EXPLORER, DAVID FAIRCHILD, Messner Biography, 1961/63, HB with
mylar dj, 192 pp, last blank page removed, vg cond, xlib, "the famous
botanist and plant explorer brought more than 200,000 species of plants
into the United STates, and established what is now the vital New Crops
Research Branch of the dept. fo Agriculture. "(1869-1954), $12
SHE LIVED FOR SCIENCE, IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE, MESSNER BIOGRAPHY, hb mylar
dj, xlib, vg cond, 1961/65, 192 pp, nuclear science/the atom, $12
MARIE CURIE, DISCOVERER OF RADIUM, hb, by Henry, xlib, vg cond, 44 pp,
1966, $5
THOMAS ALVA EDISON, BUILDER OF CIVILIZATION, Messner Biography, hb, mylar
dj, xlib, 1947/63, 232 pp, by Garbedian, illus by Burns, $12
MICHAEL FARADAY, APPRENTICE TO SCIENCE, hb, partial dj, by Sam and Beryl
Epstein, Garrard, 144 pp, 1971, vg cond book, $10
MR. BELL INVENTS THE TELEPHONE, Landmark book #30, hb, xlib, 1952, vg
cond, $9
JOHN MUIR, Naturalist, Writer, Guardian of the North American Wilderness,
People Who Have Helped the World, hb, xlib, 1990, "A biography of the
naturalist who, among other activities, founded the Sierra Club and, as
an early proponent of wilderness preservation, was influential in
establishing the national park system." Gareth Stevens Children's Book
pub, colorful photos, very informative, $6
LOUIS PASTEUR, The Scientist who found the cause of infectious disease
and invented pasteurization, People Who Have Helped the World, hb, xlib,
exc cond, Gareth Stevens Childrens' Book pub, thorough, colorful photos,
very informative, $6
CHOSEN VESSELS, PORTRAITS OF TEN OUTSTANDING CHRISTIAN MEN, by Harry
Blamires, Coleman, Colson, Howard, Keller, Muggeridge,J I Packer, Sproul,
Yancey. The portraits are of David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Philip Howard,
Thomas Aquinas, William Wilberforce, Blaise PASCAL, C S Lewis,
Solzhenitsyn, Soltau and Philip Brand, hb with dj, 1985 , exc cond, $12
JULIA MORGAN, ARCHITECT, HB, exc cond xlib, 1990, beautiful book,many
photographs, 111 pp, $3
THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENCE, volume II, A. E. E. McKenzie,
hb/dj(some closed tears), vg cond, 194 pp, source documents from famous
scientists, but from their speeches or lectures so to be less technical-
people such as Arostotle, Plutarch, Copernicus, Galileo, Duchess of
Tuscany, Kepler, Newton, Boyle, Harvey, Torricelli, Hooke, Lavoisier,
Priestley, Cavendish, Hutton, Lyell, Dalton, Avogadro, Huygens, Young,
Fresnel, Joule, Mayer, Carnot, Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz, Kekule, Lamarck,
Lister, Pasteur, Koch, Spencer, Huxley, Mendel, Rutherford, Einstein,
Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Hubble, Bondi, and more, 1960, many of these
scientists were strong Biblical Christians, however Darwin is also quoted
in here, Cambridge University Press, $23
LIVING BIOGRAPHIES OF GREAT SCIENTISTS, by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee
Thomas, illus by Ross, Garden City pub, 1941, includes Roger Bacon,
Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Dalton, Humboldt,
Faraday, Darwin, Huxley, Agassiz, Mendel, Pasteur, Kelvin, Haeckel,
Steinmetz, Marie Curie, Banting, Einstein, 314 pp, vg cond, privately
owned, HB, $15
PIONEER SURGEON, DR. EPHRAIM MCDOWELL, by Josephine Rich, hb with mylar
dj, xlib, 1961, Messner, vg cond, $8
DR. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, SCIENTIST , Messner biography, hb, xlib,
1944/66, 248 pp, "This is the biography of Dr. George Washington Carver,
the man who almost miraculously lifted the South out of its dependency on
cotton, and out of the depression that had long accompanied worn-out
fields and the scourge of the boll weevil. Agricultural and manufacturing
establishments that today estimate their annual output in hundreds of
millions of dollars grew out of the work of young George Washington
Carver." $10
THE STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, by Eva Moore, pb, xlib, 1971,
Scholastic, 96 yellowing pp, $1
ROBERT FULTON, ENGINEER AND ARTIST , HIS LIFE AND WORKS, by Dickinson,
illus, 1913/71, HB, 333pp, high school/adult level, known for his
steamboat, this book is a complete biography of his entire life and many
other accomplishments, xlib, exc cond, $4
ALBERT EINSTEIN, THE HUMAN SIDE, hb, xlib, dj, New Glimpses from his
Archives, selected and edited by Dukas and Hoffmann, 1979, Princeton, $7
ALBERT EINSTEIN, PIONEERS OF SCIENCE, hb, xlib, Lafferty, Bookwright
Press, "Describes the life and work of the xcientist whose theory of
relativity revolutionized scientific thinking" 1991, 48 pp, $6
THE STORY OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON, INVENTOR, The Wizard of Menlo Park, by
Compere, 1969, 64 yellowing pp, older Scholastic pb, $4
ALL ABOUT FAMOUS INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS, HB, Random House All
About series, 141 pp, 1955, hb, exc cond, privately owned, no dj,'$9
(very poor condition copy for $2)
* "The Science Wall of Honor at the Univ. of Bridgeport has provided the
inspiration for titling this series of science biographies.
These 25 were chosen in a world-wide poll of more than 1100
qualified-scientific electors. Aimed primarily at the reader who has
reached the
stage in life where he is impatient to be grown up...the Immortals
ofScience Biographies are both informative and inspirational. ....clear
concept of the period when the particular scientist lived; his early
life, education, and his quest for new facts is told in such a manner
that the reader himself experiences the entire process. Sufficient
is-told of the subject's scientific accomplishments to provide the
inquiring
mind with a good knowledge of the history of science....the
all-important-scientific story....All are well-indexed; also contain
chronological
summaries and glossaries of technical terms."
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