TED-Ed

How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries - Adam Savage (2012x11)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 13, 2012

Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.