Eureka!
stories of scientific discovery
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Word Count
61,500 words, Guess
Page Count
246 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveeurekascientific00horv_977
- Internet Archiveeurekastoriesofs0000horv
- ISBN-100471402761
- ISBN-139780471402763
- Goodreads993631
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- LibraryThing252552
- Library of Congress Control Number2001046890
- Better World Books9780471402763
- Open LibraryOL22491068M
Classifications
- DDC509
- LCCQ180.55.D57 H67 2002
- LCCQ180.55.D57H67 2002
Description
The common language of genius: Eureka! While the roads that lead to breakthrough scientific discovery can be as varied and complex as the human mind, the moment of insight for all scientists is remarkably similar. The word "eureka!", attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, has come to express that universal moment of joy, wonder-and even shock-at discovering something entirely new. In this collection of twelve scientific stories, Leslie Alan Horvitz describes the drama of sudden insight as experienced by a dozen distinct personalities, detailing discoveries both well known and obscure. From Darwin, Einstein, and the team of Watson and Crick to such lesser known luminaries as fractal creator Mandelbrot and periodic table mastermind Dmitri Medellev, Eureka! perfectly illustrates Louis Pasteur's quip that chance favors the prepared mind. The book also describes how amateur scientist Joseph Priestley stumbled onto the existence of oxygen in the eighteenth century and how television pioneer Philo Farnsworth developed his idea for a TV screen while plowing his family's Idaho farm.
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- Eureka!: stories of scientific discovery
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