by Isaac Asimov · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420639819
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«Grandes ideas de la ciencia» is Isaac Asimov's popular science work, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (114 pages, in Spanish).
Asimov examines how the hypotheses and discoveries of great figures drove the advance of science: Thales and Pythagoras in mathematics, Hippocrates in medicine, Linnaeus and Darwin in biology, Galileo and Wöhler in astronomy, Faraday, Rumford and Planck in physics.
1983 edition. The cover features «Historia de la ciencia», number 2502 of the El Libro de Bolsillo - Ciencias collection.
Recommended for secondary school students and for readers seeking an introduction to the history of science.
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. His work spans nine out of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system.
