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S'està carregant… The Great Scientists: From Euclid to Stephen Hawking (2005)de John Farndon
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"From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific disciplines are represented here. Each entry gives a biographical background of its subject and a description of the main themes of their work, together with concise expositions of some of their key ideas."--From publisher. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Perhaps the most significant product of science, however, is not the microwave, or the space station or the widescreen TV; it is the scientific method itself, and it is hardly an exaggeration to state that those societies that have actively embraced this method have flourished; those societies that have preferred instead to rely on superstition, witchcraft and religion have failed.
The men and women who appear in The Great Scientists have all excelled in their chosen field of science; some have excelled across a range of scientific ideas, while still others can, with some justification, claim to be the founders of their own disciplines.
The road out from under the darkness of superstition into the light of reason has not always been an easy one: scepticism, mockery, threats and worse have often been the lot of the experimental scientist who has dared to challenge the accepted 'truths'. Yet they have persevered, and in doing so have provided a shining example for the rest of humanity.
The great scientists have burned, in Bertrand Russell's telling phrase, 'with all the noonday brightness of human genius'. The Great Scientists tells their story.