Chris Woodford

"Packed with fantastic facts and amazing pictures, Science : a visual encyclopedia brings physics, chemistry, and biology to life. Why do fireworks explode? How do plants use sunlight to make food? What makes a robot intelligent? FInd the answers to all these questions and much more, much more inside this brilliant book of scientific exploration!"--

Describes how height and altitude are measured, explains the differences in height measurement scales, and how altitude is used in everyday measurement.

Describes the different ways to measure temperature, including the different types of thermometers, the different temperatures scales, and explains how temperature measurements are used to identify body heat and weather.

Defines volume and describes how it is measured.

Greek philosophers first hypothesized that matter was composed of atoms, but the theory would not resurface again until the late 17th century. The idea that that atoms joined to form structures called molecules first appeared in the 19th century and helped explain why gases, liquids, and solids behave differently from one another. In the 20th century subatomic particles were discovered-electrons, protons, and neutrons-and atomic structure was finally...

The quest to understand how electricity works has led to some of the most important discoveries and inventions of all time. Scientists have figured out how to harness the power of electricity on a very large scale in massive power plants and on a very tiny scale in computer circuits. This book includes geniuses, like Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison. Our modern ideas have been assembled over a long period as scientists built upon...

"The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series, Scientists Who Changed History profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, such as Archimedes and Hipparchus, through physicists of the early 20th-century, such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, to modern greats such as Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee. Each featured individual has made a major contribution to one or more scientific fields, from astronomy, biology, and...