Category: Great Scientists

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates became the first scientist who, casting aside superstitions and mysticism, placed medicine on a scientific foundation. He is justly called the “father of medicine.” The island of Kos in the Aegean Sea had been renowned for its physicians since ancient times. Even on the modern coat of arms of the […]

On the pedestal of the Copernicus monument in Warsaw are carved the words: “Who Stopped the Sun and Moved the Earth.” In them lies the entire essence of Copernicus’s discovery. He succeeded in convincing people that they live not in a reliable and motionless center of the world, but inhabit one of the planets, revolving […]