Synopsis
This book is the story of 60 scientists who charted the course, from ancient times, till the age of genomics and black holes. Written by S. Ananthanarayanan, the book races through twenty-three centuries of the spirit of inquiry and discovery, which uncovered secret after secret about the ways of nature.
From early Greeks to twentieth-century scientists, this book takes readers to the discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Ampère, Huygens, Dalton, Darwin and many more. Each chapter describes the work of pivotal scientists who sought out and seized patterns that transformed human understanding of nature and the world.
The work of each scientist is presented in the context of the time, the challenges faced, the misconceptions cleared and the opposition overcome.
The book tells the story of how scientists, through the ages, strove to understand the nature of the physical world, and will, hopefully, inspire new ways of dealing with the challenges that face us today.
Author Bio
S. Ananthanarayanan retired as Financial Adviser, Indian Railways, followed by three years as a judge with the Claims Tribunal, and then four years as ‘contracts’ specialist with consultants to Metro Railway projects.
Anantha, however, was initially trained in physics, and, to bridge the gap, as it were, between the worlds of science and lay-persons, he has been doing a weekly column, which explains, each time, a development in one the sciences, as reported in leading journals. The pieces have appeared, every week, since the year 2001, in several national newspapers, and many can be seen in the web-site https://simplescience.in.
