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Living Biographies of Great Scientists
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Hear the stories of the scientists who have shaped the past 2,000 years. This audiobook provides an absorbing and intimate account of the lives of 20 eminent scientists who reached the heights of human achievement. They include Archimedes, Roger Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Dalton, Humboldt, Huxley, Agassiz, Kelvin, Haeckel, Steinmetz, Faraday, Pasteur, Curie, Mendel, Darwin, Banting, and Einstein.
©1945 by Garden City Publishers, Inc. (P)1995 by Blackstone Audiobooks
What the critics say
"These biographical sketches are written with naturalness and charm." (The New York Times)
"It is the art of the Thomases to write of the scientists as if they knew them personally; their biographies are vivid and supremely interesting." (The Miami Herald)