Theories for everything an illustrated history of science from the invention of numbers to string theory

Main Author:	Langone, John, 1929-
Other Authors:	Stutz, Bruce., Gianopoulos, Andrea.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2006.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Science > History.

Physical Description:	407 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-395) and index.
ISBN:	0792239121 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780792239123 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	John Langone was a veteran science journalist and author who had been an editor at both Discover and Time magazines, and a contributor to the science section of the New York Times, as well as a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard, a Fulbright fellow in Tokyo, and a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His previous books for National Geographic were The Mystery of Time and The New How Things Work.