The Eve of the Quantum Revolution — When Newton’s Universe Began to Crumble
December 14, 1900. Berlin. A bitter winter wind swept down Wilhelmstrasse as a 42-year-old physicist stood before the German Physical Society, about to present
December 14, 1900. Berlin. A bitter winter wind swept down Wilhelmstrasse as a 42-year-old physicist stood before the German Physical Society, about to present
1851. May 1. Hyde Park, London.
A new textile mill came to life. Its machines, driven by a steam engine, roared around the clock, twenty-four hours a day.
Kant never traveled more than 10 miles from home, yet shook the world with one sentence: ‘Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own reason!’
A twenty-year-old Italian scholar named Petrarch was rummaging through the papal library on a dull afternoon. He wasn’t looking for anything in particular — jus