by Isaac Asimov · Alianza Editorial. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420617992
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«Momentos estelares de la ciencia» is Isaac Asimov's popular science essay, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (148 pages).
The book brings together thirty scientific milestones and their protagonists, from Copernicus and Galileo to Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Pasteur, Curie, Einstein and Rutherford. In each case it presents the discovery, its context and the consequences for scientific thought, turning biographies and achievements into short popular narratives.
A popular science work included in the Science and Technology Section collection (no. 799), translated from English by Miguel Paredes Larrucea; original title: «Breakthroughs in Science».
For readers interested in popular science and in the biographies of great scientists.
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. His work spans nine out of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system.
