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The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas

Richard Hamblyn

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Description:What these extracts are, first and foremost, are stories of discovery...Science. Does the word fill you with excitement, or dread, or something in between?Science - and the art of science writing - can, and should, be something to get excited about. The extracts featured in this anthology span centuries and continents, but are unified by their authors' desire to understand, explain and enrich the world.The Art of Science is not a book about great scientific theories, complicated questions or grand old men and women in their laboratories; instead, it's about the places we draw our inspiration from; about daily routines and sudden flashes of insight; about dedication, and - sometimes - desperation; and the small moments, questions, quests, clashes, doubts and delights that ultimately make us human.From Galileo to Lewis Carroll, from Humphrey Davy to Charles Darwin, from Marie Curie to Stephen Jay Gould, from rust to snowflakes, from the first use of the word 'scientist' to the first computer, from why the sea is salty to Newtonian physics 'for the ladies', The Art of Science is a book about people, which is to say, it's a book about passion, politics and poetry. Above all, though, it's a book about the good that science, and scientific thinking, can - and does - do.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas. To get started finding The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 381

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Picador

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0330490753

Description: What these extracts are, first and foremost, are stories of discovery...Science. Does the word fill you with excitement, or dread, or something in between?Science - and the art of science writing - can, and should, be something to get excited about. The extracts featured in this anthology span centuries and continents, but are unified by their authors' desire to understand, explain and enrich the world.The Art of Science is not a book about great scientific theories, complicated questions or grand old men and women in their laboratories; instead, it's about the places we draw our inspiration from; about daily routines and sudden flashes of insight; about dedication, and - sometimes - desperation; and the small moments, questions, quests, clashes, doubts and delights that ultimately make us human.From Galileo to Lewis Carroll, from Humphrey Davy to Charles Darwin, from Marie Curie to Stephen Jay Gould, from rust to snowflakes, from the first use of the word 'scientist' to the first computer, from why the sea is salty to Newtonian physics 'for the ladies', The Art of Science is a book about people, which is to say, it's a book about passion, politics and poetry. Above all, though, it's a book about the good that science, and scientific thinking, can - and does - do.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas. To get started finding The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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