Lisa Yount
Lisa Yount is the author of almost fifty educational books, including WILLIAM HARVEY, ANTOINE LAVOISIER, and ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK for the "Great Minds of Science" series. She lives with her husband, three cats, and a large library in California.
Founder of Modern Chemistry, Revised Edition
Antoine Lavoisier used experiments and careful measurements to create a system to help chemists understand how matter behaved. His experiments on combustion showed that oxygen played a key part in the burning process...Read More
Genius of Modern Chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier is considered to be the father of modern chemistry. Using experiments and careful measurements, he created a system to help chemists understand how matter behaves. He discovered and named oxygen and hydrogen, and helped set up a system to classify these and other elements...Read More
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
First to See Microscopic Life, Revised Edition
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."..Read More
Genius Discoverer of Microscopic Life
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...Read More
The Father of Anatomy
Galen and His Dissections
Galen gathered together most of the medical knowledge that had been obtained in his lifetime and extended that knowledge by discovering more than anyone had known before about the inner workings of the body...Read More
Discoverer of How Blood Circulates, Revised Edition
What does the heart do? Why does it beat? What is a pulse? Up until the 17th century, most believed that blood sloshed around the body like ocean tides. Then the English physician William Harvey showed the world that the heart is actually a pump, and that blood circulates throughout the body...Read More
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