Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments That Changed Our View of the World

by Rom Harré

Book Overview

Vivid, readable, and accurate, these tales of landmark scientific inquiries include Aristotle's work on the embryology of the chick, Galileo's discovery of the law of descent, Newton's experiment on the nature of colors, and 17 others. Each experiment is appraised and analyzed in the light of subsequent events.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486422631
• ISBN13: 9780486422633
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Enriching experience

The introduction provides an interesting insight on the role of experiments in sientific work. The author used the experiment's strory to demonstrate its rationale. Well written; Enriching reading experience.

From a student of science

This book is an overview of "Great Scientific Experiments" that changed the course of science. It is a good book, which outlines the purpose of each experiment (giving 2 experiments for each purpose). It is a book for those who want to pursue scholarly investigations on the science of experimenting. For the students, it will be a motivating experience, although they might not be able to understand the details of each experiment. As a teacher I'll recommend that this book be included as an optional reading book in upper high school/college, grade XI, XII, and onward.

Experiments whose results changed worldviews

Great Scientific Experiments showcases twenty scientific experiments whose results changed worldviews provide an excellent survey of scientific progress. From Aristotle's work on the embroyology of the chick to Beaumont's discoveries about digestion, each experiment's results are analyzed with an eye to how it changed future experimental courses and influenced other discoveries.