Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World by Jon Balchin (PDF)

Description

“If I saw further than others,” said Sir Isaac Newton, “it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” This book introduces one hundred of these giants and examines their achievements: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, strove and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, through the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, and genetics.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review Balchin has produced a compact, highly readable panorama of two and a half millennia of science –Science Books & Film About the Author Jon Balchin graduated with honors from the University of London in 1997 and has been a writer for many years. His previous works include Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I found this book good for a very basic approach to the lives of the selected scientists. The presence of Wikipedia makes all the “compendiums” a bit redundant, except for those that use a totally original approach. But is good for quick, limited reference.

⭐This book gives short synopsises of the people who thought up great ideas which changed the world. It is very interesting and you get a broad range of inventors. This is really helpful if you need to remember basic facts about these famous people.

⭐A delightful English book that does a great job of linking innovative thinking from Pythagorus to Tim Berners-Lee through the centuries. The author does a good job in that he takes what could be confusing information and distills it into easily managed amounts of concise readable information. I enjoyed the chance to review my understanding of theoretical physics, plus I picked up quite a bit more information on the life-science front. Recommend this book to anyone who wants to add to his/her educated person background. Quite fascinating read that holds your attention and for me the desire to learn more about some of these characters.

⭐Really good book that gives it to you in bite size chunks of intewresating facts!

⭐A good book give to my sister..

Keywords

Free Download Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World in PDF format
Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World PDF Free Download
Download Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World 2014 PDF Free
Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World 2014 PDF Free Download
Download Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World PDF
Free Download Ebook Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World