Men, Microscopes, and Living Things

Author: Katherine B. Shippen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692746158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This is a re-publication of Katherine B. Shippen's 1955 book, which is a history of the study of biology, from Aristotle to Thomas Hunt Morgan. Each chapter is about a different scientist or theory. The book is aimed at middle school science students.

Pets in a Jar

Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1623340489
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Suggestions for collecting and keeping as pets such small animals as snails, toads, worms, ants, butterflies, and starfish.

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things

Author: Katherine Binney Schippen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biological products
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

Every Living Thing

Author: Rob R. Dunn
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061430307
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
" ... traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space"--

Benny's Animals and how He Put Them in Order

Author: Millicent Ellis Selsam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060252724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Rain, Hail, Sleet & Snow

Author: Nancy Larrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692810477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An elementary science book that serves as an introduction to weather. Specifically addressed are the subjects of how and where rain, hail, sleet, snow, tornadoes and hurricanes, lightning and thunder come from. Although first published in 1961, the volume still provides accurate scientific explanations for these weather conditions.

Matter and Energy

Author: Paul Fleisher
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822506742
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Have you ever seen a magician make something disappear and question if anything could really just vanish? Do you know why the periodic table is set up the way it is? From Lavoisier and Joule to Dalton and Mendeleyev, take a look at the basic principles of matter and thermodynamics in a fun and exciting way.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Author: Lisa Yount
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766065251
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
For his discoveries of microscopic life, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is remembered today as one of the great geniuses of science. Using microscopes he made himself, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek peered into exciting new worlds that no one knew existed before. Beginning in the 1670s, he discovered tiny, single-celled living things that he called little animals. His curiosity led him to examine lake water, moldy bread, and even the plaque build-up on his own teeth! Van Leeuwenhoek was also the first to see red blood cells and bacteria.

Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster

Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Through curiosity and perseverance Edward Jenner found a way to make a vaccine for small pox, one of the most feared diseases throughout history.

Microbe Hunters

Author: Paul De Kruif
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacteriologia
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
First published in 1927.