Serendipity book review: accidental scientific discoveries ✍️ Written by: Royston M. Roberts📚🔥

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📓 Serendipity: accidental scientific discoveries

✍️ Written by: Royston M. Roberts

🗂 Classification: Scientific

📚 Level: Intermediate

🏷 Title: Very relevant to the content

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📖 Introduction:

The book carries between its two covers exciting stories of discoveries of great importance and indispensable to us in our lives ; Which often happened by chance.

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Author's style:

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📚 Main Ideas:

▪️ Serendipity: It is the discovery of something without prior planning, i.e. by chance, and the first to use this word "Horace Walpole" inspired by a fictional story that tells of the adventures of the "Three Princes of Serendib".

▪️ an apple falling from a tree to the ground is a normal sight for many of us, but it was different with the genius Isaac Newton; Through which he discovered the law of gravitation, he became one of the most famous scientists in the world.

▪️ Joseph Priestley discovered nitrous oxide gas, which causes a fit of laughter for everyone who inhales it, and Wells discovered that it could be used as an anesthetic and then replaced it with ether gas, and Wells became the discoverer of anesthesia in the United States of America.

▪️ Nobel invented high explosive materials such as dynamite and gelignite and deliberately used them safely, and recommended that part of his enormous wealth be devoted to establishing the Nobel Prizes, which are awarded annually in several fields such as chemistry, physics, literature and peace.

▪️ German physicist Roentgen discovered a new type of ray, the "unknown" X-ray, and he called it this name because he did not fully understand it yet, and it was used in the field of diagnosis in all hospitals in the world.

▪️ French chemist Edouard Benedic invented safety glass when a glass bottle fell from his hands and he noticed that it shattered, but it did not crumble into small pieces but remained cohesive, hence the idea of ​​putting a layer of the glass to make it safe.

Among the traits common to people who made these accidental discoveries: curiosity, insight, thinking about what they saw, and the ability to explain it on a rational scientific basis.

👍 Positive effect:

A wonderful book in a simple style, rich in valuable scientific information, and it is also very suitable for non-specialists in the scientific field.

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🏡 Publishing House: Hendawy CIC Foundation

📆 Release Date: 2017

Number of pages: 344

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