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ISBN: 0471402761

ISBN13: 9780471402763

Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World

Name: Paradigm Shift... Plateaus of Human thought
Item: Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World
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by Leslie Alan Horvitz

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"Eureka" ist eine Sammlung der bemerkenswertesten und unterhaltsamsten Geschichten über die gro en wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungen, die die Welt verändert haben. Das Buch setzt die Tradition von 'Hellman's Great Feuds in Science' fort und erzählt ein Dutzend Wissenschaftsgeschichten, die sich allesamt auf die besondere Dramatik des unmittelbaren "Heureka Moments" gründen, der vielen wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungen gemeinsam ist. Angefangen beim Amateurwissenschaftler Joseph Priestly, der im 18. Jahrhundert auf die Existenz des Sauerstoffs gesto en ist, jedoch ohne eine wirkliche Ahnung davon zu haben, was er eigentlich gefunden hatte, bis hin zu dem 14-jährigen Fernseh-Pionier Philo Farnsworth, dem die Idee für einen Fernsehbildschirm beim Pflügen der elterlichen Felder in Idaho kam. Unter den hier vorgestellten Wissenschaftlern befinden sich Berühmtheiten wie Darwin, Einstein und Watson Crick, aber auch etwas obskure Persönlichkeiten, wie z.B. der Chemiker Kekulé und der Mathematiker Benoit Mandelbrot. Bei allen Entdeckungen spielten Glück, gutes Timing und ein wacher Geist eine wesentliche Rolle. "Eureka" - eine ebenso spannende wie unterhaltsame Lektüre.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0471402761

ISBN13:9780471402763

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:Wiley

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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Paradigm Shift... Plateaus of Human thought

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago

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...

Great Reading Piece!

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago

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