| Edition |
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xxvii, 528 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Note |
"Scientists and writers illuminate natural phenomena from fossils to fractals"--Cover. |
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Originally published: The Faber book of science. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude: The Misfit from Vinci / Leonardo da Vinci -- Going inside the Body / Andreas Vesalius -- Galileo and the Telescope / Galileo Galilei -- William Harvey and the Witches / Geoffrey Keynes -- The Hunting Spider / Robert Hooke John Evelyn -- Early Blood Transfusion / Henry Oldenburg, Thomas Shadwell -- Little Animals in Water / Antony van Leeuwenhoek -- An Apple and Colours / Isaac Newton and others -- The Little Red Mouse and the Field Cricket / Gilbert White -- Two Mice Discover Oxygen / Joseph Priestley -- Discovering Uranus / Alfred Noyes -- The Big Bang and Vegetable Love / Erasmus Darwin -- Taming the Speckled Monster / Mary Wortley Montagu, Edward Jenner -- The Menace of Population / Thomas Malthus -- How the Giraffe Got its Neck / Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Wilbur -- Medical Studies, Paris 1821 / Hector Berlioz -- The Man with a Lid on his Stomach / William Beaumont -- Those Dreadful Hammers: Lyell and the New Geology / Charles Lyell -- The Discovery of Worrying / Adam Phillips -- Pictures for the Million / Samuel F.B. Morse, Marc Antoine Gaudin -- The Battle of the Ants / Henry David Thoreau -- On a Candle / Michael Faraday -- Heat Death / John Updike -- Adam's Navel / Stephen Jay Gould -- Submarine Gardens of Eden: Devon, 1858-9 / Edmund Gosse -- In Praise of Rust / John Ruskin -- The Devil's Chaplain / Charles Darwin -- The Discovery of Prehistory / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Chains and Rings: Kekule's Dreams / August Kekule -- On a Piece of Chalk / T.H. Huxley -- Siberia Breeds a Prophet / Bernard Jaffe -- Socialism and Bacteria / David Bodanis -- God and Molecules / James Clerk Maxwell -- Inventing Electric Light / Francis Jehl -- Bird's Custard: The True Story / Nicholas Kurti -- Birth Control: The Diaphragm / Angus McLaren -- Headless Sex: The Praying Mantis / L.O. Howard -- The World as Sculpture / William James -- The Discovery of X-Rays / Wilhelm Roentgen, H.J.W. Dam and others -- No Sun in Paris / Henri Becquerel -- The Colour of Radium / Eve Curie -- The Innocence of Radium / Lavinia Greenlaw -- The Secret of the Mosquito's Stomach / Ronald Ross -- The Poet and the Scientist / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Wasps, Moths and Fossils / Jean-Henri Fabre -- The Massacre of the Males / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Freud on Perversion / Sigmund Freud, W.H. Auden -- Kitty Hawk / Orville Wright -- A Cuckoo in a Robin's Nest / W.H. Hudson -- Was the World Made for Man? / Mark Twain -- Drawing the Nerves / Santiago Ramon y Cajal -- Discovering the Nucleus / C.P. Snow -- Death of a Naturalist / W.N.P. Barbellion -- Relating Relativity / Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, A.S. Eddington and others -- Uncertainty and Other Worlds / F.W. Bridgman and others -- Quantum Mechanics: Mines and Machine-Guns / Max Born -- Why Light Travels in Straight Lines / Peter Atkins -- Puzzle Interest / William Empson -- Submarine Blue / William Beebe -- Sea-Cucumbers / John Steinbeck -- Telling the Workers about Science / J.B.S. Haldane -- The Making of the Eye / Charles Sherrington -- Green Mould in the Wind / Sarah R. Reidman, Elton T. Gustafson -- In the Black Squash Court: The First Atomic Pile / Laura Fermi -- A Death and the Bomb / Richard Feynman -- The Story of a Carbon Atom / Primo Levi -- Tides / Rachel Carson -- The Hot, Mobile Earth / Charles Officer, Jake Page -- The Poet and the Surgeon / James Kirkup, Dannie Abse -- Enter Love and Enter Death / Joseph Wood Krutch -- In the Primeval Swamp / Jacquetta Hawkes -- Krakatau: The Aftermath / Edward O. Wilson -- Gorillas / George Schaller -- Toads / George Orwell -- Russian Butterflies / Vladimir Nabokov -- Discovering a Medieval Louse / John Steinbeck -- The Gecko's Belly / Italo Calvino -- On the Moon / Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin -- Gravity / John Frederick Nims -- Otto Frisch Explains Atomic Particles / Otto Frisch, Murray Gell-Mann, John Updike -- From Stardust to Flesh / Nigel Calder, Ted Hughes -- Black Holes / Isaac Asimov -- The Fall-Out Planet / J.E. Lovelock -- Galactic Diary of an Edwardian Lady / Edward Larrissy -- The Light of Common Day / Arthur C. Clarke -- Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt / Carl Sagan -- Brain Size / Anthony Smith -- On Not Discovering / Ruth Benedict -- Negative Predictions / Peter Medawar -- Clever Animals / Lewis Thomas -- Great Fakes of Science / Martin Gardner -- Unnatural Nature / Lewis Wolpert -- Rags, Dolls and Teddy Bears / D.W. Winnicott -- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Oliver Sacks -- Seeing the Atoms in Crystals / Lewis Wolpert, Dorothy Hodgkin -- The Plan of Living Things / Francis Crick -- Willow Seeds and the Encyclopaedia Britannica / Richard Dawkins -- Shedding Life / Miroslav Holub -- The Greenhouse Effect: An Alternative View / Freeman Dyson -- Fractals, Chaos and Strange Attractors / Caroline Series, Paul Davies, Tom Stoppard [and others] -- The Language of the Genes / Steve Jones -- The Good Earth is Dying / Isaac Asimov. |
| Subject |
Science -- Popular works.
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Science. |
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Natural Science Disciplines. |
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Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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| Added Author |
Carey, John, 1934-
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| ISBN |
067428755X (alk. paper) |
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9780674287556 (alk. paper) |
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