Scientific curiosity by cyril aydon ORIGINAL

SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY

Everything You Want To Know About Science But Never Had Time To Ask


LOTS OF THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING

THE HEAVENS

Accurate Clocks

Meteor Showers

Kuiper Belt

• Lemaitre's 'Cosmic Egg' 'Big Bang'

or 'Steady State'?

THE EARTH. Weighing the Earth Time is Distance Atmospheres Maury & Oceanography Notable Earthquakes

. Planetary

THE LIVING WORLD

Leeuwenhoek's Lenses

Owen's Dinosaurs

• Darwin & Natural Selection

Heaviest Animals

Pasteur's Vaccines

MASS AND ENERGY

Rainbows Fraunhofer & his Lines X-rays

• Why the Sky is Blue

Becquerel's

Discovery Doppler Effect

THE NATURE OF MATTER

Invisible Chemistry Berzelius &

Chemical Symbols Phlogiston:

the Element that Never Was

• Mendeleyev's Dream

Frankland & Cannizzaro

SCIENTIFIC INNOVATORS

Columbus' Miscalculation

. Galileo

& the Pope Faraday the Showman

Newton & the Cat Flap

SCIENCE IN SOCIETY

Alphabets & Movable Type

• Microscopes & Telescopes

The Royal Society.

Bad Science

KEEPING COUNT

Counting in Sixties

Natural & Artificial

Time Calculating Pi Arabic Numerals

Gregorian Calendar

MEASURING THINGS

Very Small & Very Large Numbers

• Temperature. International Standards

TIMELINES

. Astronomy Biology.

Chemistry

• Physics

Scientific Technology

Earth Science