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Gifford, Clive, author.

ISBN:

9781465457585

Edition:

First American edition.

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New York, New York :

DK Publishing,

2017.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

DK Smithsonian at head of title.

Contents:

3 MYA-800 CE: Before science began -- 800-545: New ideas -- 1545-1790: The age of discovery -- 1790-1895: Revolutions -- 1895-1945: the atomic age -- 1945-present day: Modern science.

Abstract:

Packed with fascinating discoveries and facts, this visual reference takes kids on a fantastic journey through time, from stone tools and simple machines to space travel and robots.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Subject Term:

Science -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Discoveries in science -- History -- Chronology.

Science -- History.

Discoveries in science. (OCoLC)fst00894959

Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / History of Science.

Genre:

Chronologies. (OCoLC)fst01423901

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637

Chronologies.

Added Author:

Gifford, Clive,

Kennedy, Susan,

Parker, Philip, 1965-

Challoner, Jack,

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Summary

This epic journey of scientific discovery starts in ancient times and travels through centuries of invention before fast forwarding into the future.

From simple machines to modern-day marvels, you'll follow incredible illustrated timelines that plot the entire history of science and highlight the most momentous discoveries. A jaw-dropping collection of more than 1,500 photographs, illustrations, maps, and graphics charts the evolution of science year by year, century by century.  

You'll meet influential inventors and famous faces from the past, including Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, and Stephen Hawking. You'll visit places of scientific importance, such as prehistoric cave art, Stonehenge, Hiroshima and the first atomic bomb, the Moon landings, and the Higgs boson particle. These huge events are made simple thanks to eye-catching images, helpful timelines, and accessible, informative text.  

Landmark people and periods are combined in this one stunning volume for children, showcasing the ideas, experiments, and technologies that have shaped our daily lives and transformed the world today.  

Aspiring scientists, get ready for a time traveling trip like no other.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 5-8-This browsing item offers select highlights in the progress of science and technology, from the 3.3 million-year-old stone tools discovered near Kenya's Lake Turkana to the flight of the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for 2018. Select is the key word here, as the discoveries and inventions flanking the time line ribbon that runs across the middle of each page never result in a crowded look. The designer does take occasional liberties-misleadingly putting a photo of a Japanese ceramic pot from the middle Jomon period in an incongruous place on the time line, for instance. Overall, however, the bright, inviting mix of color pictures and concise commentary, enhanced with cross references and frequent breaks for more in-depth examinations of significant advances or figures, will give readers a good sense of what (or who) came along when. A closing "Reference" section adds scattershot but informative overviews of modern sciences and major scientists of the past. VERDICT This volume is no substitute for comprehensive chronologies, such as the one found in Brenda Wilmouth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner's Scientific Thought in Context, but for middle school browsers or students needing a quick refresher, it merits consideration as a useful update or replacement for Robert Dinwiddie's -Science Year by Year or Lisa Rezende's Chronology of Science.-John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New York © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.