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5 Scientific Laws and the Scientists Behind Them

Posted May 12, 2008 9:13 AM

From Neatorama:

Every high school physics student knows about Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction and Hooke's Law of Elasticity. But not many know that Joseph Fourier lived inside a wooden box in his old age. Or that Robert Hooke's arch-nemesis, Isaac Newton, hated him so much that he had Hooke's portrait removed from the Royal Society and tried to have his papers burned. Imagine how much fun science class would've been, had these been taught along side all those equations and formulas.

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05/13/2008 8:13 PM

Dry old formulas and equations would have been so much easier to remember, had we some extra facts to add as an aid to memory.

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05/13/2008 8:43 PM

I have always been fascinated by the History of Science and how various scientists came to see their way clear to postulate their scientific principles. One realizes that many of the discoveries came about by imitation of another scientists work but in another area (eg: Fick's Law and Fourier's Law have a common basis).

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