Living Biographies of Great Scientists - Softcover

Henry Thomas; Dana Lee Thomas

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9788172764340: Living Biographies of Great Scientists

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8172764340 ISBN 13: 9788172764340

Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2010

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Fascinating adventures in the lives and achievements of twenty one great scientists who figure in this book afford the reader to see the ball of progress rolling over a period of two thousands years The series of human stories told here so intimate and appealing in their content as they unfold the struggles and sufferings triumphs and defeats and hopes and fears of the savants are vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics When the earth seemed old and faith grew silly and reason cold it was they who in their sleepless vigil discovered that the world was young In the words of the authors of this book From candlelight to satellite - this in a phrase tells the story of the great scientists Being men of methodical minds they have tried to find an orderly meaning in the universe and to translate this order into daily use and the progress of science is the result of their gradual unravelling of the mysterious threads of existence and winding them up into a comprehensive and comprehensible unit The scientist takes it for granted that all existence is based upon a definite design It is not as some people maintain a meaningless enigma From Archimedes through Copernicus to Einstein the scientists have charted their way through the universe by means of an abiding faith a rational belief in an eternal law As we read the Living Biographies of Great Scientists we shall see this enduring reliance upon a precise pattern that motivated their investigations It is this motive that prompted them to explore the universe for the widening of our horizons and to harness its power for the enrichment of our lives

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