A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and TV si.
Films that dramatize historical events and the lives of historical figures--whether they are intended to educate or to entertain--play a significant role in shaping the public's understanding of the past. In A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists andInventors in American Film and TV since 19...
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| Language: | English |
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Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE ENLIGHTENMENT; Hippocrates of Kos (460-370 BC) Greek Physician; Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek Philosopher and Naturalist; Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) Greek Mathematician, Physicist, and Engineer; Gutenberg, Johan (c. 1400-1462) German Inventor; Da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519) Italian Scientist and Engineer; Copernicus, Nicholas (1473-1543) German-Polish Mathematician and Astronomer; Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) English Philosopher and Physicist; Galileo (1564-1642) Italian Astronomer, Physicist, and Mathematician.
