by Fiona MacKenzie, Anna Trewin
from Harper Collins
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun
René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’
Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works
Carl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’
Charles Babbage who invented computers
Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program