“Often the process of scientific discovery is seething with emotions. When presenting a new idea, a scientist is likely to enter foreign territory. Proponents of the old views are unlikely to easily give up their positions,” writes science popularizer Khal Hellman.
“Often the process of scientific discovery is seething with emotions. When presenting a new idea, a scientist is likely to enter foreign territory. Proponents of the old views are unlikely to easily give up their positions,” writes science popularizer Khal Hellman. His book focuses on ten of the most exciting debates of scientists that have shaped the modern world (in particular, the controversy between Wallis and Hobbes, Newton and Leibniz, Darwin and Wallis). It presents the history of science not as a victorious march of scientific discoveries, but as a struggle between followers of old views and new ideas.
Williams, 320 p.