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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... Law ( 1958 ) 333 345 Richard Feynman : The Distinction of Past and Future ( 1965 ) 355 Edward Harrison : The Golden Walls of Edgar Allan Poe ( 1987 ) 362 Fred Alan Wolf : Waves Without a Breeze ( 1986 ) 366 Heinz R. Pagels : Making the ...
... Law ( 1958 ) 333 345 Richard Feynman : The Distinction of Past and Future ( 1965 ) 355 Edward Harrison : The Golden Walls of Edgar Allan Poe ( 1987 ) 362 Fred Alan Wolf : Waves Without a Breeze ( 1986 ) 366 Heinz R. Pagels : Making the ...
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... Law Isaac Asimov : Death in the Laboratory Richard Feynman : The Distinction of Past and Future James Watson : The Double Bases Noam Chomsky : The Case Against B. F. Skinner Carl Sagan : Has the Earth Already Been Visited ? Walter ...
... Law Isaac Asimov : Death in the Laboratory Richard Feynman : The Distinction of Past and Future James Watson : The Double Bases Noam Chomsky : The Case Against B. F. Skinner Carl Sagan : Has the Earth Already Been Visited ? Walter ...
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... Law ( 1958 ) Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy ( 1862 ) Lucretius : The Persistence of Atoms ( 60 B.C ) James Clerk Maxwell : Molecules ( 1873 ) Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light ( 1672 ) J ...
... Law ( 1958 ) Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy ( 1862 ) Lucretius : The Persistence of Atoms ( 60 B.C ) James Clerk Maxwell : Molecules ( 1873 ) Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light ( 1672 ) J ...
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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 |
Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing Edmund Blair Bolles Limited preview - 1999 |
Galileo's Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing Edmund Blair Bolles No preview available - 1997 |
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