China's Four Great Inventions
by Lao Duo
Description
From Thales who lit the fire of science, to Rogier Bacon who told us not to rely on authority too much; from Newton who discovered gravity, to Einstein who created the theory of relativity; from Mozi who studied optics, mechanics and arithmetic, to the skilled craftsmen of ancient China who played with the four great inventions... Science is Played out by a Group of Curious People! This set of books with lively and smart language, the story with gamut of emotions and tells the process of science from nonexistence to pass into existence with a critical and reflective perspective, and then completely change the state of human’s life. With time as a line, characters as a rope, in the form of scenario reenactment, restore the thousands of Chinese and foreign scientific masters in the search for truth in the process of anecdotes, to explore the fruits of their wisdom for future generations of civilization enlightenment. This is the fourth volume of the series.
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Author Biography
Lao Duo, whose real name is Li Jianrong, is a famous science writer in China and former senior engineer of the Institute of Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the author of a series of popular science books such as "Naughty Human Being" and "The Story of the Chinese People". His books have won awards from the Chinese Association of Popular Science Writers for Outstanding Popular Science Works, the Wenjin Book Award, the National Outstanding Popular Science Works of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Outstanding Popular Science Books of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Laureate Children's Book Award.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House
- Orginal LanguageChinese simplified
- ISBN/Identifier 9787556258673
- Publication Country or regionChina
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 39.80 CNY
- Pages128
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title中国四大发明
- Original Language Authors老多
- Dimensions210×170 mm
- SeriesNaughty Human Beings—The Book of Science History for Children
- Series Part5
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