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

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.

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.

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.