About this ebook
Throughout history, momentous, enabling discoveries have led to a giant leap in our understanding of the workings of the universe and fast-tracked human progress. 100 Discoveries presents the greatest 100 breakthroughs in science and technology, medicine, and the major areas of human endeavour of the past 10,000 years, from the development of agriculture in 10,000BC to the discovery of genomics and the unravelling and manipulation of genes in living things. In identifying and describing these discoveries, this book tells the stories of the amazing people behind them, and where appropriate breaks down the complex concepts under discussion in easy-to-understand terms. 100 Discoveries presents, in engaging, text and fascinating photographs the crossing of every major intellectual, scientific, technological and cultural frontier of the past ten millennia.
About the author
Peter Macinnis is a Sydney-based science writer. He trained originally as a biologist, and worked as a science teacher, education bureaucrat and museum educator, but prefers writing, mainly about the history of science or technology. In recent years, he has written social histories of sugar (Bittersweet), rockets (Rockets) and poisons (The Killer Bean of Calabar). He has recently completed Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World and The Speed of Nearly Everything for Murdoch Books.
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