Page 12 - All About History - Issue 11-14

A science class at Kalvskindet
School, Norway, circa 1900

Science

12 pages of invention,

ingenuity and
experimentation

Science The systematic study

of the nature and behaviour of the

physical world, especially by observing, An early Culpeper-type
microscope, ca 1725
measuring and performing experiments

14 Hall of fame 20 Anatomy of…

Ten influential scientists who A 19th-century body snatcher, who
changed the world for the better robbed graves for medical science
16 Science throughout 22 Day in the life
Plato and Aristotle are two of time Trying to make new substances as a
the world’s most influential 17th-century alchemist
philosophers and scientists From the earliest and basic
experiments to complicated modern- 24 Inside history
day scientific wonders
Newton and the light spectrum
18 How to… 26 Top 5 facts
Split an atom and produce nuclear Archimedes, the genius Greek
energy to power industries mathematician and inventor
12 Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin by accident in 1928, but
Splitting the atom led to the 1945
nuclear bomb known as ‘Fat Man’ decades passed until it was put to use