Annotated Bibliography

Smithsonian.com, Copernicus Unearthed, Smithsonian Magazine, 2006 Here they address a lot about how Copernicus was the first person to be able demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun and not the other way around. It also shows that even when you are the person who comes up with a great new concept you will not always be accepted for it.[Internet]

Ludwig Heinrich Heydenrich, Leonardo da Vinci, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2012 This covers the whole life and the scientific works of da Vinci. He was a man who didn't have formal training is science but was able to come up with detailed scientific research because he was one of the first people to document and use the scientific method.[Internet]

Peter Saundry, Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent, The Encyclopedia of Earth, 2010 Peter Saundry talks about the life of Lavoisier and how his work was influential in changing how the world views science. Didn't work within the current scientific system because he didn't go to the typical schooling of scientists at his time period. [Internet]


Nielsen, Michael. Reinventing Discovery, Princeton University Press, 2011 Michael talks about how science has had the ability to now have people work on something and have rapid contact by other people to help in the development and vetting of new ideas. He uses examples of things like how the human genetic map was compiled by many different people.[Professor Burton]

Beretta, Marco. Lavoisier in Perspective, Wolf & Sohn, 2005 Lavoisier in Perspective speaks about how Lavoisier was a man who was able to introduce revolutionary changes in chemistry. Lavoisier was able to help make many changes in the science world through his ability to look at work of others and connect their work together to become something coherent that actually made sense.[Library]

Guerlac, Henry. Lavoisier-The Crucial Year. Cornell University Press. 1961 Henry makes note of how we don't really know all that much about the time when Lavoisier switched from his early research to his research on combustion. This switch of his is what let him to understanding that matter is conserved in a reaction and has the same mass at the end of a reaction.[Library]