Real Zone (Top Ten Scientific Debates)

Author: (USA) Hermann
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book selects ten influential scientific debates from the history of science in the 17th to 20th centuries and presents them to readers in a clear, engaging, and captivating language, depicting a dramatic and thrilling picture. For example: the unequal competition between Urban VIII and Galileo, the debate over squaring the circle between Wallis and Hobbes, the clash between the two giants Newton and Leibniz over calculus, the debate between Voltaire and Nidham on the mystery of life formation, the ups and downs in Darwin and Samuel's theory of evolution, and so on, vividly recreating the real history of scientific development.