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Beakman's World: Beakman's Book of Dead Guys and Gals of Science

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This is a book of biographies, fast facts and silly observations about famous scientist's lives. Each scientist has a two page biography/time line (except for Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, which share the same page). The book begins with a introduction as to what makes these scientists stand out, and builds up to the idea that the chronological order of the scientist help to build on each others work up until the television. A silly quote by Liza tells the reader "let's go wake up the dead and see why they're so famous now" (page 7). After each bio/time line, there is then a two page description of what they did and how they did it. Each biography starts with a photograph of one of the "Beakman's World" actors dressed as one of the famous scientists, (a still image from a television episode). There is a short information paragraph that tells; the day they were born, when they died, and why they were famous. A Time line of silly observations such as "No more star gazing for old Galileo," (page 13) on the year of his death. There are illustrations that help to explain the process of the research/experiment the scientist did, as well as other photographs of the cast in their usual television show costumes, usually with a silly or factual remark presented in a speech balloon. Fittingly the last invention that is covered in the book is the television. The illustrations of a virus attacking a cell (page 30), were also featured in the book/kit "Build With Beakman: Bacteria Farm" (page 5), however they appear to be redrawn. Unlike many of the other books in this series, it does give credit to the actors who portray the characters. This book they also included both Josie from the first season, and Liza from the second season, although they didn't appear on the show together.

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Andrews and McMeel
Language
English
Pages
64

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Beakman's World: Beakman's Book of Dead Guys and Gals of Science
1994, Andrews and McMeel
Paperback in English

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Kansas City

Table of Contents

Introduction. 6
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Reasons for Seasons. 8
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Gravity and the Tower Toss. 12
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), The Laws of Motion. 16
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Kite in a Thunderstorm. 20
Montgolfier Brothers, Hot Air Balloon.
Joseph-Michel (1740-1810),. 24
Jacques-Etienne (1745-1799),. 24
Edward Jenner (1749-1823), Smallpox Vaccine. 28
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), Telescopic Comet. 32
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1893), Light Bulb. 36
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Telephone. 40
Marie Curie (1867-1934), Radioactivity. 44
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Relativity: E=mc2. 48
Robert Goddard (1882-1945), Roket Engines. 52
Louis S. B. Leakey (1903-1972), Human Fossils. 56
Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971), Electronic Television. 60

Edition Notes

"From the hit TV show "Beakman's World"!"--Cover.

Series
Beakman's World

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
509/.2/2, B
Library of Congress
Q141 .C54 1994, Q141.C54 1994

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
64p.
Number of pages
64
Dimensions
25.5 x 20.5 x 0.4 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1103526M
ISBN 10
0836270142
LCCN
94028541
OCLC/WorldCat
30813594
Library Thing
3766016
Goodreads
932312

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