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title: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-simple-ideas-lead-to-scientific-discoveries/
date: 2012-03-17
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# How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

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. (Launching a series on Inventions that Shaped History)

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