100 protagonistes de la història de la ciència

Science is a collaborative enterprise, a cooperative process that has taken nearly 25 centuries and thousands of contributions to get where it is now. Even supposedly solitary figures of genius, such as Newton himself, acknowledged that "if I have seen farther, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants". The most difficult thing, then, is not to choose 100 scientific personalities, but to discard many more. This book, more than a definitive and unquestionable list of unconnected names, was born with the intention of being an enjoyable and original journey through more than 3,000 years of the history of scientific thought. Based on the biographies of women and men who dedicated their lives to trying to understand the world, we will see how a method was developed that has proven to be the most useful ever created by the human species for this epistemological purpose.