Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World

You’ll learn about concepts that helped establish the foundation of contemporary existence when society was willing to pursue them in Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World. You’ll use the phrase “scientific concept” in a broad sense, encompassing both ideas that made science feasible and ideas that make science extremely powerful.

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