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Science is entertaining! Science is funny! Science is downright ridiculous!
Get hands-on and explore the wacky world of science in this comic strip-style book of facts and experiments. Keep things dry underwater with kinetic theory, bravely defy gravity with air pressure, experiment with buoyancy using a Cartesian diver, and much more!
Learn about each scientist and their amazing discoveries in the fun comic strips, then have a go at the experiments and activities yourself. Featuring a diverse range of scientists throughout history this book will inspire you to give science a go! Are you ready?
Contents
Introduction
LIVING THINGS
Maria Sibylla Merian
Six Legs
Theophrastus
Up-seed-down
Nehemiah Grew and Stephen Hales
Cut and Dyed
Charles Darwin
Worm-world
John James Audubon
Feed the Birds
Print a Plant
HUMAN BIOLOGY
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
Print Detective
Hermann von Helmholtz
Optical Tricks
Brain Games
Rosalind Franklin
DIY DNA
A Question of Taste
MATERIALS
Fritz Klatte
Slime Time!
Hans Christian Oersted
Flight Test
Soren Sorenson
Chameleon Water
Robert Angus Smith
AIR
Otto von Guericke
Under Pressure
Daniel Bernoulli
Go with the Flow
The Wright Brothers
Go Fly a Kite!
James Clerk Maxwell
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Electrifying!
Benjamin Franklin
Sparks in the Dark
William Gilbert
Make a Magnet #1
Make a Compass
Make a Magnet #2
FORCES AND PHYSICS
Hypatia of Alexandria
Archimedes
Agnes Pockels
Water Wizardry!
Laura Bassi
Isaac Newton
Bell and Edison
Making Waves
Frank Whittle
LIGHT
Ibn Al-Haytham
See the Light
Isaac Newton
Light Fantastic!
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Big it Up!
Albert Einstein
Micro-light
Lord Rayleigh
ASTRONOMY
Galileo Galilei
Star Struck!
The Apollo 11 Crew
Mad on the Moon!
Caroline Herschel
Space Oddity
Hot Stuff!
MATH
Katherine Johnson
Handy Math
Ada Lovelace
Math Magic!
On a Roll
STANDBY FOR STEM
Mary Somerville
Picture Yourself
Mike Barfield
Glossary
Index
