Short description
With this unique traveler's guide, travelers can learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, and technology occurred or are happening now.
Long description
Science is all around us, but other than big museums it's hard to know where to look. A World of Discovery will cover the usual and the unusual (did you know that Florence Nightingale was much more than a nurse? She did lovely work on visualization of complex data with hand drawn diagrams). Stop in at the biggest science museum in the world, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, sit on a park bench next to Alan Turing, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree, and discover the secrets of the NSA. For each discovery or invention, the science or mathematics behind it is explained and illustrated in sidebars. For example, when talking about Albury Church in Surrey, England, and William Oughtred (inventor of the slide rule), there is a sidebar on how slide rules work and the underlying mathematics (logarithms). These sidebars are 'optional' for the less technical reader but, conversely, the book can also be read just for pleasure because of the scientific content.