The Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of Science (Union Square & Co. Milestones) by Clifford A. Pickover (PDF)

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From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. Award-winning author Cliff Pickover (The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book) gathers into one fully illustrated volume the most important thinkers and ideas in the history of science. This unique omnibus edition includes 250 thoughtfully selected entries from many of the science-based books in the Sterling Milestones series, including math, physics, medicine, biology, chemistry, engineering, psychology, and space. With a new introduction by Pickover explaining how this impressive collection was curated,The Science Book showcases humanity’s greatest achievements and provides readers with a sense of wonder at the diversity of scientific discovery.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Clifford Pickover has published more than 50 books, translated into a dozen languages. He received his PhD from Yale University, has been granted more than 450 US patents, and been elected a Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Pickover’s The Math Book won the Neumann Prize, awarded every two years for the best book in the history of mathematics aimed at a broad audience. He lives in Yorktown Heights, NY. Follow him on Twitter @pickover.

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⭐An OK book for young readers to learn the history of science in a chronological format.Some explanations are missing e.g. on pages 138-139, “Bernoulli’s Law of Fluid Dynamics” does not explicitly state that this is why airplane wings create lift and are able to fly, that the airfoil shape makes the air travel faster over the top of the wing, creating lower air pressure, and thus creating lift.One comment on page 340 “1929- Hubble’s Law of Cosmic Expansion.”See also pages 182-183, “1829- Non-Euclidean Geometry,” Clifford A. Pickover, which Pickover nails.From my review of the book by Robert Osserman “Poetry of the Universe,” which see and buy.”This book about the development of non-Euclidean geometry.It is a great book on its subject and a must read, though challenging, (the unreferenced footnotes at the back of the book- which are a great addition- does not help in reading this book), the effort is well worth it.One of the most important ideas contained in this book is on p. 192, which is a footnote to p. 104 in the main text. It is too long quote in full but the jest is:”Taken together with other efforts throughout the 1920’s, both observational and theoretical, to try to establish first the reality and second the meaning of de Sitter’s 1917 prediction of a redshift-distance relation, they constitute a body of work that makes all the more mysterious the myth of Hubble’s sudden discovery of the relation in 1929.”Having said that Osserman does not go where Morris Kline goes re: “Non-Euclidean Geometries and Their Significance,” which is found in Kline’s “Mathematics for the Nonmathematician” and “Mathematics- The Loss of Certainty,” et. al., both are recommended.The point is, Osserman’s book is a great exposition on the development non-Euclidean geometry.On pages 128-129 is “1687- Newton’s Laws of Motion and Gravitation,”In “Instant Physics,” (1995), by Tony Rothman, Ph.D. he presents Newton’s Three Laws of Motion in short, single, sentences:1. Law of Inertia: “An object travels at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an outside force,” (“The first law addresses the motion of free bodies …”) (from “Space-Time, Relativity, and Cosmology,” 2006), by Jose Wudka, page 122, which see):2. F=ma: “The force acting on an object is equal to the product of the object’s mass and acceleration,” (“the second law states quantitatively how a motion deviates from free motion”):3. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” (“the third law states the effect experienced by a body when exerting a force on another object.”)John Wheeler’s sentence should also be included: “Matter and energy tell space how to curve and space tells them how to move,” is in a lot of books on Gravity.”

⭐As the dust jacket of the Science Book says, Clifford Pickover is a prolific author having published more than fifty books. Also, it does not come as a surprise to me that as an inventor, he has received more than five hundred United States patents. I was reminded of his innovation a few months ago when I saw media reports of an invention for using the blockchain system, which forms the foundation of Bitcoin, to manage the security of drone fleets. I was motivated by these reports to go to the original document. Sure enough, Pickover is an inventor of the blockchain drone. Cliff Pickover’s Science Book is the thirteenth in the series of Sterling milestones books. Of the previous books, there are three by Pickover:

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⭐. Others in the series include, The Engineering Book, The Space Book, and The Biology Book. For The Science Book, Pickover has selected the best of the milestones of the twelve books.Each book consists of 250 milestones. For each milestone, there is a page of explanation facing a full-page image, which illustrates the milestone. The images have included photos, works of art, computer drawn graphics, and even diagrams taken from U.S. patents. My favorite images in the Science Book are those which include cute animals: the wolf/dog-to-be represents the domestication of animals; a muskrat stands in for Brownian motion because models for muskrat diffusion are said to follow the same rules; and there is, of course, Schrodinger’s Cat.I note that the first 125 milestones, starting in 18,000 BC, take us to 1890, a span of around 20,000 years. The next 125 milestones occur in the next 127 years. Clearly, the pace of science is accelerating. What I wonder about is how can you pick the most important 250 milestones out of the 3000 of the first twelve books. I suppose that you have to have the insight and genius of a Pickover to do it. I think that he has pulled it off.

⭐Wanted to use this book to teach my son but print is so small it’s almost useless. When two people try to use the book it’s impossible to read

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