Here I have revealed some interesting extracts from my book
How Great Thinkers Transformed Our Ideas
It had been a tumultuous day. BBC News announced the sad death of Professor Stephen Hawking in the early hours of yesterday morning – Wednesday 14 March 2018. ABC News in Sydney, Australia described him as the most brilliant scientist of our time – famous for his work on gravity, black holes and qua...
by Dr Stavros Mouslopoulos, BA, PhD, Dip Ed
Richard Feynman used to say that physics is one scientific field that has not admitted any evolutionary question: “Here are the laws! we say. We don’t even think about how they got that way…”. Luckily today we are in a position to view such statement as an exaggeration (although it still holds true ...
Extracts from the book
“Newton’s first years at Cambridge were interrupted when the great plague hit and so in 1665 he was forced to return to the family home at Woolsthorpe in the country and didn’t return to Cambridge until 1667. But this interlude of 2 years turned out to be his making where his major discoveries occur...
Extracts from the book
Leibniz was a key advisor in the courts of these fledgling German states serving Dukes. These courts were the centres of cultural and political life in the ‘Holy Roman Empire’ – the future Germany. It was emerging as a land of great palaces, great homes and great castles. Germany’s multitude of stat...
Extracts from the book
“One such scientist Henri Becquerel also discovered another type of radiation emanating from uranium compounds or salts. He was testing responses to sunlight when during cloudy weather he noticed the uranium salts still gave off radiation which could pass through metal foil and make impressions on p...