Copycat Science: Step into the shoes of the world’s greatest scientists
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Science is entertaining... science is funny... science is downright ridiculous! Explore the wacky world of STEM in this comic book of exciting experiments. Defy gravity with air pressure!Extract DNA from a living thing!Learn the science of SLIME!Create a lightning bolt in the dark!Prove theories about light with Newton's wheel! ...and much more! Discover STEM topics through the lives of over 40 scientists and their amazing discoveries. Read the comic strips then have a go at each STEM experiment yourself. Featuring a diverse range of scientists throughout history this book will inspire you to give science a go! Are you ready? Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Introduction LIVING THINGS Maria Sibylla Merian Six Legs Theophrastus Up-seed-down Nehemiah Grew and Stephen Hales Cut and Dyed Charles Darwin Worm-world John James Audubon Feed the Birds Print a Plant HUMAN BIOLOGY Jan Evangelista Purkyn? Print Detective Hermann von Helmholtz Optical Tricks Brain Games Rosalind Franklin DIY DNA A Question of Taste MATERIALS Fritz Klatte Slime Time! Hans Christian Oersted Flight Test Soren Sorensen Chameleon Water Robert Angus Smith AIR Otto von Guericke Under Pressure Daniel Bernoulli Go with the Flow The Wright Brothers Go Fly a Kite! James Clerk Maxwell ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM Electrifying! Benjamin Franklin Sparks in the Dark William Gilbert Make a Magnet #1 Make a Compass Make a Magnet #2 FORCES AND PHYSICS Hypatia of Alexandria Archimedes Agnes Pockels Water Wizardry! Laura Bassi Isaac Newton Bell and Edison Making Waves Frank Whittle LIGHT Ibn Al-Haytham See the Light Isaac Newton Light Fantastic! Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Big it Up! Albert Einstein Micro-light Lord Rayleigh ASTRONOMY Galileo Galilei Star Struck! The Apollo 11 Crew Mad on the Moon! Caroline Herschel Space Oddity Hot Stuff! MATHS Katherine Johnson Handy Maths Ada Lovelace Maths Magic! On a Roll STANDBY FOR STEM Mary Somerville Picture Yourself Mike Barfield Glossary Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W
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