TED-Ed

How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries - Adam Savage

TV-PG
2012 • E11    Mar 13, 2012    10m
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.

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