Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
West. Maxwell Reed, was a pioneering United States. author of illustrated science books for children. After schooling at Harvard, he taught astronomy at Harvard and Princeton University. Reed later went into the steel industry.
While science has discovered much since then, the book remains popular, having been republished in 2005.
"Earth" was followed by a series of popular children"s information books, many published by Harcourt, Brace, many of which had multiple editions. The series apparently led many children to undertake science careers.