A thorough, authoritative, and accessible introduction to the most profound discoveries in scientific history--from the subatomic level to the boundaries of the universe--this book tells the stories of seven earthshaking scientific discoveries and the people who made them.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent historical perspective of key discoveries.,
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This review is from: Science Class You Wish You Had...: The Seven Greatest Scientific Discoveries in History and the People Who Made Them (Paperback)
The Brody brothers provide a thorough, but not overly complex, review of seven scientific discoveries that altered human self-awareness and understanding. The book is well written, informative (even for a professional scientist!), and quite enjoyable. Especially interesting is the overall perspective of the book, which emphasizes how historical and social influences affected the pathways to discoveries and which stresses the important interrelationships between and among the seven discovies discussed. I recommend this book not only to scientists and students, but also to anyone with an interest in technologically and advances in human thought - which should be everyone.
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This book is excellent for anyone who is curious about science but had teachers and professors who made science as boring as possible. It includes one of the best explanations of Relativity I have found.
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Excellent Science Class,
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This review is from: Science Class You Wish You Had...: The Seven Greatest Scientific Discoveries in History and the People Who Made Them (Paperback)
I enjoyed reading this book very much. The first two chapters are out of this world. They provide a factual, easy-to-read account of the development of physics, and cosmology in particular. Although history of scientific ideas in the political context is one of my specialties, I found these chapters educational. Everything is laid out in such a way that it is easy to understand which scientist made which contribution to the development of our understanding of the universe. The only reservation I had about this book is that it has its dogmatic moments, for example when the authors claim that the theory of evolution is not a "theory," but something above it, because it has been "proved." One of the authors is a practicing attorney, which may be the reason for this approach. Scientific theories are not "proved" the way mathematical theorems are, or the way one proves things in a court of law. Scientific theories are always tentative, provisional, hypothetical. Science includes facts. For example that a coin can land in three ways: hads, tails, or (incredibly) on its side. This is not a theory, but a fact, and it can certainly not be "disproved." If the authors want to call evolution a fact, they are free to do so. But science is not a court of law--it does not prove things.
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In the summer of 1347, the most devastating plague ever suffered by mankind struck Europe, the bubonic and pneumonic plague caused by bacteria in fleas of rats. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Milky Way, United States, Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Royal Society, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Catholic Church, Charles Darwin, Human Genome Project, Year of the Universe, Black Death, Niels Bohr, South America, Big Crunch, Francis Crick, Giordano Bruno, King's College, Maurice Wilkins, New York, Oak Ridge, Tycho Brahe New!
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In the summer of 1347, the most devastating plague ever suffered by mankind struck Europe, the bubonic and pneumonic plague caused by bacteria in fleas of rats. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nuclear droplet, relativistic factor, greatest scientific discoveries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, United States, Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Royal Society, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Catholic Church, Charles Darwin, Human Genome Project, Year of the Universe, Black Death, Niels Bohr, South America, Big Crunch, Francis Crick, Giordano Bruno, King's College, Maurice Wilkins, New York, Oak Ridge, Tycho Brahe New!
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- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 15 pages
- Natural Selection (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Charles Darwin on 6 pages
- The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics by Robert P. & Charles C. Mann Crease on 4 pages
- Human Blueprint, The by Robert Shapiro on page 305, page 319, and Back Matter
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking on page 162, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Space: Frontier of the Mind, From Triangle to 10th Dimension by Ludwig Auer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don't Know Much About the Universe: Everything You Need to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis in Back Matter
- Who Gives a Gigabyte: A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed (Wiley Popular Science) by Gary Stix in Back Matter
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