Real Zone -- Top Ten Scientific Debates

Author: Hal Hellman
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: This book selects ten influential scientific controversies in the history of science from the 17th to the 20th centuries and presents them to readers in a simple, clear, and engaging language, depicting a dramatic and thrilling picture. For example: the unequal competition between Urban VIII and Galileo, the dispute between Wallis and Hobbes over squaring the circle, the clash between the two giants Newton and Leibniz over calculus, the debate between Voltaire and Newton on the mystery of life formation, and the ups and downs in Darwin and Sam's theory of evolution, and so on. It vividly recreates the real history of scientific development.