About the product:

📚 Name/ Type: Book - 379 pages - Inventors and Discoveries - 500 illustrations, black and white and color: Old engravings, diagrams and photos, very often unpublished.

🙌 Author: Albert Bettex, published by Hachette

🌍 Origin: Germany

📝 Language: French

✨ Year/Condition: 1967 - Used but in good condition - Dust jacket with creases at the bottom

📐 Dimensions: ± 31 x 25 x 4 centimeters

⚖️ Weight: ± 2690 grams

📦 Packaging: Individually wrapped in paper

🎁 Ideal as a gift or a treat for yourself!

📌 Description and content

This book is ideal for enthusiasts of art, history and science, offering a comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of one of history's most iconic geniuses.

This is a work of popular science, focusing on major inventions, discoveries, and "inventors." One source indicates that the author holds a doctorate in science and taught at Cambridge before returning to Switzerland.

The book is well illustrated, making it a beautiful "large format" volume.

The (non-exhaustive) table of contents includes sections such as "Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology, Man, Astronomy, Philosophy of Nature, Index."