The World Around Us
#18 - The Illustrated Story of Great Scientists
(February 1960)
Gilberton,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 76
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-12-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- Brand
-
Classics Illustrated
- Editing
- Roberta Strauss (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
The Illustrated Story of Great Scientists
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Norman Nodel (painting)
- Inks
- Norman Nodel (painting)
- Colors
- Norman Nodel (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Albert Einstein
- Reprints
-
in Unsere Welt Illustrierte (BSV - Williams, 1962 series) #9 -
in World Illustrated (Thorpe & Porter, 1960 series) #509 [cover] -
in Alt i bilder (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1960 series) #9 - Om store vitenskapsmenn ([1960]) -
in Wereld in beeld (Classics/Williams, 1960 series) #9 - Beroemde geleerden ([1960])
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The Earth Is Round
comic story / 4 pages
The Body Is Charted
comic story / 5 pages
- Characters
- Andreas Vesalius; Herophilus; William Harvey; Rudolf Virchow
- Synopsis
- Andreas Vesalius is the first to make detailed drawings of the anatomy of the human body.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- anatomy; physiology
The Earth Moves
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- Galileo Galilei; Thales; Nicolaus Copernicus; Johann Kepler; Clyde Tombaugh
- Synopsis
- Galileo discovers that the Earth travels around the Sun.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- astronomy; Italy; Leaning Tower of Pisa; math; telescope
Nature Has Laws
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- Issac Newton; Euclid; Al-Khwarizimi; Pierre LaPlace; Ernst Mach
- Synopsis
- The story of Issac Newton and his discoveries.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cambridge England; gravity; light; motion
The Earth's Secrets
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- Niels Stensen; Georges Buffon; William Smith; Roderick Murchison; Maurice Ewing
- Synopsis
- The story of Niels Stensen and his discoveries in geology.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Catskill Mountains; fossil; geology; Mount Everest; Mount Vesuvius; mountains; volcano
Germs Cause Disease
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow
- Inks
- Gray Morrow
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- Louis Pasteur; Anton Van Leeuwenhoek; Charles Darwin; Gregor Mendel; Alexander Fleming
- Synopsis
- The story of Louis Pasteur and his accomplishments.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Alps; anthrax; biology; germs; pasteurization; rabies; The Pasteur Institute; vaccination
The Ways of Mankind
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- John Wesley Powell; Gray Cloud; Johann Blumenbach; Francis Galton; Franz Boas; Margaret Mead
- Synopsis
- The story of John Wesley Powell and his work studying Native American tribes.
- Keywords
- American Civil War; anthropology; Battle of Shiloh; Colorado River; Grand Canyon; Green River; Native Americans; Pike's Peak
The Magic Element
comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- Marie Curie; Pierre Curie; Henri Antoine Becquerel; Irene Curie; Eve Curie; President Warren G. Harding; Theophrastus Paracelsus; Joseph Priestly; Antoine Lavoisier; Irving Langmuir
- Synopsis
- The story of Marie Curie and her discover of Radium.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- alchemist; alchemy; chemistry; France; Nobel Prize for Chemistry; pitchblende; radioactivity; radium; Sorbonne
The Inner Man
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- Sigmund Freud; John Locke; William James; Hugo Munsterberg; Alfred Adler
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Austria; hypnosis; Paris; psychology; University of Vienna
The Atom Splits
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- H. J. Kihl
- Inks
- H. J. Kihl
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- math & science
- Characters
- Albert Einstein; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; William Gilbert; Guglielmo Marconi; Robert H. Goddard; Hideki Yukawa
- Synopsis
- The story of Albert Einstein.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- atomic weapon; Nobel Prize for Physics; Princeton; Switzerland; Theory of Relativity; Zurich
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Illustrated Story of Great Scientists
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1.
The Illustrated Story of Great Scientists
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2.
The Earth Is Round
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3.
Fun with Geography
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4.
The Body Is Charted
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5.
House of Hope
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6.
The Earth Moves
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7.
Fun with Astronomy
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8.
Nature Has Laws
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9.
Fun with Mathematics
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10.
Water for Springfield
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11.
The Earth's Secrets
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12.
Fun with Geology
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13.
Germs Cause Disease
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14.
Fun with Biology
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15.
Ten Thousand Muskets
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16.
The Ways of Mankind
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17.
Fun with Anthropology
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18.
The Magic Element
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19.
Fun with Chemistry
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20.
Classroom to an Age
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21.
The Inner Man
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22.
Fun with Psychology
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23.
The Atom Splits
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24.
Fun with Physics
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