George Gamow, "The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein"
Publisher: Dover Publications | ISBN: 0486257673 | edition 1988 | Djvu | 338 pages | 12 mb

Outstanding text by one of the 20th century's foremost physicists dramatically explains how the central laws of physical science evolved—from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios in the sixth century B.C. to today's research on elementary particles. Includes fascinating biographical data about such immortals as Galileo, Newton, Huygens, Einstein and others.