H. Thomas Milorn's books The History of Physics and The History of Astronomy and Astrophysics provide coverage of major concepts and hundreds of one-page biographies of people involved in these areas.
Milhorn's books, and others like them, can be useful for developing ideas for characters and stories while learning and developing ideas about how to familiarise people with scientific concepts with stories for cinema and fiction.
They can also be useful for researching historical periods for cinema and fiction set in the past.
In 2004, paleontologists digging in the Canadian Arctic unearthed the
fossil of a 375-million-year-old creature named Tiktaalik that possessed
both the scales of a fish and the sturdy, jointed limb bones of a land
animal—and this single, perfect transitional fossil bridged the
evolutionary gap between water and land, showing the exact moment our
distant ancestors began to crawl out of the sea.
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In 1999, three paleontologists made a decision that would, five years
later, lead them to one of the most important fossil discoveries of the
twenty-firs...
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