This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and works of 30 great scientists. It focuses on some eminent scientists of the Western world. The scientists range from antiquity to the modern times—from Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Euclid and Archimedes to Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Marconi, Einstein and Hubble, to name just a few. Concisely and lucidly written, this book conveys the extraordinary versatility of the scientists whose ideas and landmark discoveries and inventions have shaped the way we think and live.

The book would prove useful to students as well as general readers who will get an essence of the lives, ideas, and discoveries of these scientists. Maybe it will whet their appetite for reading about them in detail. The ideas discussed in the book could well help in writing essays, in the form of examples to substantiate one’s points.