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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
The Archimedes Screw
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Blaise Pascal illness
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Darwin's illness
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
The Archimedes Heat Ray
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The Claw of Archimedes
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The Golden Crown
The ship shaker
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
The first long distance automobile trip in History
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
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