D. C. Ipsen Books
Rattlesnakes and scientists
By D. C. Ipsen
Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and behavior of various species of rattlesnakes "probably the most efficient killers of all poisonous snakes."
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What does a bee see?
By D. C. Ipsen
Traces the scientific experiments begun in the eighteenth century and continuing to the present on the honeybees' capacity to distinguish color.
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Eye of the whirlwind: the story of John Scopes
By D. C. Ipsen
Recounts the life of John Thomas Scopes and his trial of 1925 which tested the right of a teacher to teach evolution.
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Isaac Newton, reluctant genius
By D. C. Ipsen
A biography of the seventeenth-century English scientist who developed the theory of gravity, discovered the secret of light and color, and formulated the system of calculus.
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Archimedes, greatest scientist of the ancient world
By D. C. Ipsen
Traces the life and discoveries of the Greek mathematician, scientist, and inventor, sometimes called "the father of experimental science."
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