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xxvii, 528 pages ; 24 cm |
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| 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 and John Evelyn -- Early blood transfusion / Henry Oldenburg and 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 and Edward Jenner -- The menace of population / Thomas Malthus -- How the giraffe got its neck / Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, George Bernard Shaw and 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 -- The battle of the ants / Henry David Thoreau -- On a candle / Michael Faraday --Heat death / John Updike. |
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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. 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 and 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. |
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Drawing the nerves / Santiago Ramâon 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 and 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 and Jake Page -- The poet and the surgeon / James Kirkup -- 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. |
| Summary |
John Carey, editor of the internationally acclaimed Faber Book of Reportage, plots the development of modern science, from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. This anthology is made up of accounts by the scientists themselves. |
| Subject |
Science -- Popular works.
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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 |
0571163521 |
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9780571163526 |
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