MASTERWORKS OF SCIENCE

This is part of a series making available to the modern reader key classics in field of philosophy, economics, science, history, government, autobiography. This particular volume presents digest of works -- thirteen in all- that every literate person knows- by hearsay. Euclid, Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Dalton, Darwin, Iyell, Faraday, Mondel, Mendeleyev, Curie, Einstein -- figures in science that have changed and molded the world's thinking and being. Here, for the layman, in one volume, is the essence of their chief contribution to science.