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Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World

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Anyone looking for anything beyond the most basic and overly simplified introduction to great scientists should look elsewhere. Not only is this book written on a very basic level, but it provides no visual aids to assist the reader in understanding complex ideas that very often have powerfully visual/tactile components; for example, the chapter on the periodic table makes frequent reference to earlier models but provides no reproduction of them to illustrate the comparative discussion. Throughout this book, it seems written in a rush and published on the cheap.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in scientific breakthroughs. The drama of sudden insight as experienced by twelve distinct scientists brings the reader closer to these discoveries than ever before. The book also covers a wide range of luminaries, from Einstein to Mandlebrot to Medeleev. The moment of "eureka!" is brought to life

It's a great scientific breakthrough! Two thumbs Up!

It seems that the fellow who invented the wheel is forgotten.
The first man to use symbol to represent thought in drawing is forgotten as well.
It has gone badly for many such men, who seem sent to
the world to suffer because they can think or see things just a little different.
Stories like these need to be told. They don't happen as often as we might like
then to. We also should be ashamed of how some of these men have been treated
or rewarded for their gifts to history. Don't think that Christ, Socrates and Gandhi
are sometimes as important as printing presses and Linotype machines
in the spread of culture and it's advance. People are far from perfect
and great men are still mostly just men like all other men.
The trouble and pain we put these fellows through in our doubts
and resistance is hard on them.
Gandhi and Einstein were alive at the same time as Hitler and Mandelbrot.
Good and bad coexist and we need more than a simple Paradigm Shift
to make people listen to better ways when they come.
The author recognized that Mandelbrot was as important as Einstein...