For more than thirty years-half his life-da Vinci was obsessively devoted to investigationg everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interesrt: how our eyes see, ehy the sky is blue, wh…
For more than thirty years - half his life - da Vinci was obsessively devoted to investigating everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest: how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, …
And famous he become. But does he qualify as a "Giant of science"? Certainly his road to greatness had some prculier detours. As a young physician, he was convinced that cocaine was a miracle sure …
Plowing a potato field in 1920, a fourteen-year-old farm boy had a brainstorm. He saw in the parallel rows of overtuned earth a way to "make pictures fly throught the air." And just eight years lat…
Isac Newton was a man with an imagination so large that just "by thinking on it" he invented a new branch of match-calculus-and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so …
The winner of not just one but two Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning-from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. Until, recently…