Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science WritingEdmund Blair Bolles Macmillan, 18. okt 1999 - 512 pages Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science, yet erudite enough for the scientifically initiated to enjoy. |
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... Boyle : Doubting the Four Elements ( 1661 ) 177 Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light ( 1672 ) 184 Marie Curie : Obtaining Radium ( 1923 ) 193 Alfred Wegener : Jigsaw Continents ( 1929 ) 198 Ernest vi CONTENTS.
... Boyle : Doubting the Four Elements ( 1661 ) 177 Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light ( 1672 ) 184 Marie Curie : Obtaining Radium ( 1923 ) 193 Alfred Wegener : Jigsaw Continents ( 1929 ) 198 Ernest vi CONTENTS.
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... Elements of Chemistry ( 1789 ) 379 Alfred Wallace : On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type ( 1859 ) 389 Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy ( 1863 ) 400 Albert Einstein : Two Theories ...
... Elements of Chemistry ( 1789 ) 379 Alfred Wallace : On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type ( 1859 ) 389 Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy ( 1863 ) 400 Albert Einstein : Two Theories ...
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... Elements Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light Voltaire : The Importance of Isaac Newton Antoine - Laurent Lavoisier : Preface to The Elements of Chemistry Horace Bénédict de Saussure : The Movement of Glaciers ...
... Elements Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light Voltaire : The Importance of Isaac Newton Antoine - Laurent Lavoisier : Preface to The Elements of Chemistry Horace Bénédict de Saussure : The Movement of Glaciers ...
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... Elements ( 1661 ) Herbert Butterfield : Chemistry Transformed ( 1949 ) Marie Curie : Obtaining Radium ( 1923 ) Antoine - Laurent Lavoisier : Preface to The Elements of Chemistry ( 1789 ) Primo Levi : Carbon ( 1975 ) GEOLOGY Rachel ...
... Elements ( 1661 ) Herbert Butterfield : Chemistry Transformed ( 1949 ) Marie Curie : Obtaining Radium ( 1923 ) Antoine - Laurent Lavoisier : Preface to The Elements of Chemistry ( 1789 ) Primo Levi : Carbon ( 1975 ) GEOLOGY Rachel ...
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Contents
V | 5 |
IX | 16 |
X | 22 |
XII | 29 |
XIII | 41 |
XVII | 49 |
XVIII | 53 |
XX | 63 |
LVII | 250 |
LVIII | 257 |
LIX | 267 |
LXI | 274 |
LXIII | 284 |
LXV | 290 |
LXVII | 301 |
LXIX | 306 |
XXI | 71 |
XXIV | 80 |
XXV | 88 |
XXVI | 93 |
XXIX | 97 |
XXX | 105 |
XXXI | 112 |
XXXIII | 117 |
XXXV | 125 |
XXXVII | 129 |
XXXVIII | 133 |
XXXIX | 143 |
XL | 155 |
XLI | 161 |
XLIII | 167 |
XLV | 177 |
XLVI | 184 |
XLVII | 193 |
XLVIII | 198 |
L | 206 |
LI | 214 |
LII | 218 |
LIII | 226 |
LIV | 239 |
LV | 245 |
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Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing Edmund Blair Bolles Limited preview - 1999 |
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