Mike Barfield is a writer, poet, performer, songwriter, ukulele player, and cartoonist. He has written extensively for TV and radio - with credits as diverse as Spitting Image, The Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show and five years on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. His cartoon feature Apparently has appeared in the pages of Private Eye for over 20 years, and his drawings have been on display in the Cartoon Museum, the V & A, the Museum of London, and Nigella Lawson's downstairs loo. His Destroy This Book series (published by Buster Books) has been sold around the world, starting with the Destroy This Book In The Name of Science! The Element in the Room (Lawrence King, 2018) which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019.
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Introduction
LIVING THINGS Maria Sibylla Merian Six Legs Theophrastus Up-seed-down Nehemiah Grew and Stephen Hales Cut and Dyed Charles Darwin Worm-world John James Audubon Feed the Birds Print a Plant
HUMAN BIOLOGY Jan Evangelista Purkyně Print Detective Hermann von Helmholtz Optical Tricks Brain Games Rosalind Franklin DIY DNA A Question of Taste
MATERIALS Fritz Klatte Slime Time! Hans Christian Oersted Flight Test Soren Sorenson Chameleon Water Robert Angus Smith
AIR Otto von Guericke Under Pressure Daniel Bernoulli Go with the Flow The Wright Brothers Go Fly a Kite! James Clerk Maxwell
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM Electrifying! Benjamin Franklin Sparks in the Dark William Gilbert Make a Magnet #1 Make a Compass Make a Magnet #2
FORCES AND PHYSICS Hypatia of Alexandria Archimedes Agnes Pockels Water Wizardry! Laura Bassi Isaac Newton Bell and Edison Making Waves Frank Whittle
LIGHT Ibn Al-Haytham See the Light Isaac Newton Light Fantastic! Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Big it Up! Albert Einstein Micro-light Lord Rayleigh
ASTRONOMY Galileo Galilei Star Struck! The Apollo 11 Crew Mad on the Moon! Caroline Herschel Space Oddity Hot Stuff!
MATH Katherine Johnson Handy Math Ada Lovelace Math Magic! On a Roll
STANDBY FOR STEM Mary Somerville Picture Yourself Mike Barfield
LIVING THINGS Maria Sibylla Merian Six Legs Theophrastus Up-seed-down Nehemiah Grew and Stephen Hales Cut and Dyed Charles Darwin Worm-world John James Audubon Feed the Birds Print a Plant
HUMAN BIOLOGY Jan Evangelista Purkyně Print Detective Hermann von Helmholtz Optical Tricks Brain Games Rosalind Franklin DIY DNA A Question of Taste
MATERIALS Fritz Klatte Slime Time! Hans Christian Oersted Flight Test Soren Sorenson Chameleon Water Robert Angus Smith
AIR Otto von Guericke Under Pressure Daniel Bernoulli Go with the Flow The Wright Brothers Go Fly a Kite! James Clerk Maxwell
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM Electrifying! Benjamin Franklin Sparks in the Dark William Gilbert Make a Magnet #1 Make a Compass Make a Magnet #2
FORCES AND PHYSICS Hypatia of Alexandria Archimedes Agnes Pockels Water Wizardry! Laura Bassi Isaac Newton Bell and Edison Making Waves Frank Whittle
LIGHT Ibn Al-Haytham See the Light Isaac Newton Light Fantastic! Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Big it Up! Albert Einstein Micro-light Lord Rayleigh
ASTRONOMY Galileo Galilei Star Struck! The Apollo 11 Crew Mad on the Moon! Caroline Herschel Space Oddity Hot Stuff!
MATH Katherine Johnson Handy Math Ada Lovelace Math Magic! On a Roll
STANDBY FOR STEM Mary Somerville Picture Yourself Mike Barfield
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