Adler, Robert E.

Tells the stories of thirty-five landmark scientific discoveries, each representing a "first" in its field, covering a period that ranges from 585 B.C. with the first accurate prediction of an eclipse, to the cloning of a sheep in 1996.

Explores the history of Western medicine through the lives and accomplishments of thirty notable practitioners and researchers, from Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, to the scientists responsible for decoding the human genome.