' If I saw further than others, ' said Sir Issac Newton, 'it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.' ' Quantum Leaps' introduces one hundred of these giants & examines their achievements: the men & women who, often in the face of extreme scepticism or worse, have striven & succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavour, from the cosmology of Copernicus & Galileo, through the medical revolutions of Hippocrates & Galen, it
Includes:: the fields of physics, biology, chemistry & genetics. This is the story of the ideas that have shaped the world today, & the ideas that will shape the future.