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The Illustrated Story of Great Scientists

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Eratosthenes calculates the size of the Earth. Other famous geographers are profiled.

Cover date

February 1, 1960

On sale date

December 2, 1959

Pages

76

Cover price

$0.25

Editor

Roberta Strauss

Characters

Admiral Richard Byrd (explorer); Albert Einstein; Alexander Fleming; Alfred Adler; Al-Khwarizimi; Andreas Vesalius; Antoine Lavoisier; Anton Van Leeuwenhoek; Charles Darwin; Clyde Tombaugh; Eratosthenes; Ernst Mach; Euclid; Eve Curie; Francis Galton; Franz Boas; Galileo Galilei; Georges Buffon; Gerhardus Mercator; Gray Cloud; Gregor Mendel; Guglielmo Marconi (inventor); Henri Antoine Becquerel; Herophilus; Hideki Yukawa (physicist); Hugo Munsterberg; Irene Curie; Irving Langmuir; Isaac Newton; Johann Blumenbach; Johann Kepler; John Locke (philosopher, physician); John Wesley Powell; Joseph Priestly; Louis Pasteur; Marco Polo; Margaret Mead (anthropologist); Marie Curie; Maurice Ewing; Nicolaus Copernicus; Niels Stensen; Pierre Curie; Pierre LaPlace; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; President Warren G. Harding; Robert H. Goddard (inventor); Roderick Murchison; Rudolf Virchow; Sigmund Freud; Thales; Theophrastus Paracelsus; William Gilbert (philosopher); William Harvey; William James (philosopher, psychologist.); William Smith

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