Makers of Modern Science, a new biography series for young adults, explores the lives and achievements of scientists who made significant contributions to human knowledge during the 19th and 20th centuries. Each volume profiles one scientists - or team of scientists - whose work has had a major impact on a particular field. In clear, simple prose free of technical jargon, each scientist's achievements are discussed, including the scientific principles underlying his or her work. Drawing on primary sources - diaries, memoirs, letters, contemporary news stories - each volume depicts the human drama of scientific work and the exhilaration of discovery. A final chapter contains an annotated bibliography and is illuminated by striking black-and-white photos as well as diagrams when necessary, making the books useful and appealing to students and general readers alike.
From the time of his boyhood, Charles Darwin was captivated by the mysteries of the natural world, drawn to the adventure that came with each walk in the woods in search of rocks, fish and insects. This quiet boy of "enlarged curiosity" went on to become Britain's greatest naturalist - and one of the most unforgettable scientific figures of his century. In Charles Darwin: Evolution of a Naturalist, Richard Milner offers readers a dazzling new portrait of this extraordinary man's life and work, from his early day in a small English market town, to his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, to his years of unrelenting effort in search of truth about the evolution of life. Authoritative and capivatingly written, this book tells the compelling story of a man whose ideas changed the way we think about ourselves - and all living things.
Other volumes in the series include:
Richard Milner, senior editor of Natural History Magazine at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, is also author of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Evolution: Humanity's Search for Its Origins. Milner's scholarly sleuthing in England and America has made this biography of Charles Darwin an authoritative and original contribution to the Darwinian literature.