By Melvyn Bragg
Discover the best minds within the background of technological know-how with a number of the best medical thinkers of this day.
- Archimedes
- Galileo Galilei
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Michael Faraday ó
- Charles Darwin
- Jules Henri PoincarT
- Sigmund Freud
- Marie Curie
- Albert Einstein
- Francis Crick
- James Watson
The tale of technology is the best experience of the human brain during the last 2,500 years, as scientists have steadily complicated humankind's figuring out and keep watch over of the universe. but for plenty of, the clinical theories that underpin the trendy international will be not easy to grasp.
On Giants' Shoulders elucidates the milestones within the background of technological know-how, targeting twelve members and their striking breakthroughs. From a layman's standpoint, acclaimed journalist and writer Melvyn Bragg discusses the existence, paintings, and legacy of those extraordinary individuals with major scientists and historians in each one box, together with Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Martin Rees, Oliver Sacks, John Gribbin, and Paul Davies.
Interviewed by means of journalist Melvyn Bragg, a variety of scientists speak about twelve of the pioneers of technology history—and the attention-grabbing personalities at the back of the discoveries.
What makes this e-book paintings so good is that Bragg is an excellent journalist making use of his abilities as an intruder to blow away the pretensions and display many of the mechanics and motivations of what's nonetheless a remarkably closed international. —New Scientist
Each lifestyles is pored over in a quick yet fantastic highbrow submit mortem with the aid of famous modern scientists. . . listed here are the paranoia, the blind alleys of study, the competition, and lots of collisions of highbrow heavyweights. . . On Giants' Shoulders holds delights for either scientist and layperson.—Kevin O'Sullivan, Irish Times
Each bankruptcy has the speed and liveliness of a around desk dialogue. . . In a shockingly short area, you may therefore flavor a taste of actual debate as each one modern scientist brings of their personal angle.—Susan Greenfield, self sustaining on Sunday
Bragg explores the contribution made by way of nice scientists, from Archimedes to Crick and Watson, to the improvement of our knowing of the realm. What makes the outcome targeted is Bragg's strange courting to his topic. His light probing, and the choice of fabric, addresses precisely the questions on technological know-how and scientists that curiosity outsiders.—John Gribbin, The Independent
Ranging from the root of hydrostatics within the 3rd century b.c. to the invention of DNA's constitution in our personal time, this is often an available, thought-provoking, and engaging account of the seminal discoveries of the prior and their originators. The booklet additionally illuminates the problems with which scientists are wrestling at the present time, poised on their forerunners' shoulders to hold clinical inquiry into the subsequent millennium.
This is a fascinating ebook, since it is a ebook produced by means of a shrewdpermanent guy listening closely. . . technological know-how isn't really, honestly, a frightening alien territory. yet normally it sort of feels to wish to inform us the solutions dogmatically, sooner than we're convinced what questions we wish to invite. On Giants' Shoulders asks simply these type of questions.—Lisa Jardine, the days (London)
Nobody within the media has labored more durable than Melvyn Bragg to advertise technology as a tradition and scientists as creators. In a sea of indifference to the tutorial and cultural nature of technology, he seems the single individual with perception.—Professor Sir Harry Kroto, The Sunday occasions (London)
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