Eureka! : Greatest Scientists Who Changed the World

An enriching narrative of the world''s greatest scientists, filled with stories of conflicts,challenges and breakthroughs.Eureka! races through twenty-three centuries of the spirit of enquiry and discovery, which uncoveredsecret after secret about the ways of nature.From early Greeks to twentieth-century scientists, this book takes readers to the discoveries ofCopernicus, Kepler, Newton, Ampère, Huygens, Dalton, Darwin and many more. Each chapterdescribes the work of pivotal scientists who sought out and seized patterns that transformed humanunderstanding of nature and the world.The work of each scientist is presented in the context of the time, the challenges faced, themisconceptions cleared and the opposition overcome.This book tells the story of how scientists, through the ages, strove to understand the nature ofthe physical world, and will, hopefully, inspire new ways of dealing with current challenges.