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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... : 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.
... : 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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... Light Voltaire : The Importance of Isaac Newton Antoine - Laurent Lavoisier : Preface to The Elements of Chemistry Horace Bénédict de Saussure : The Movement of Glaciers Charles Darwin : Birds of the Galapagos 1610 1610 1620 1632 1638 ...
... Light Voltaire : The Importance of Isaac Newton Antoine - Laurent Lavoisier : Preface to The Elements of Chemistry Horace Bénédict de Saussure : The Movement of Glaciers Charles Darwin : Birds of the Galapagos 1610 1610 1620 1632 1638 ...
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... Molecules ( 1873 ) Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light ( 1672 ) J. Robert Oppenheimer : A Science in Change ( 1953 ) Heinz R. Pagels : Making the Observer Count ( 1982 xii CONTENTS ARRANGED BY SCIENCE.
... Molecules ( 1873 ) Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke : Dispute on the Nature of Light ( 1672 ) J. Robert Oppenheimer : A Science in Change ( 1953 ) Heinz R. Pagels : Making the Observer Count ( 1982 xii CONTENTS ARRANGED BY SCIENCE.
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... light . Newton noticed the unexpected regularity in the way light moved through a prism , and he was inspired to imagine parti- cles of light moving in straight lines . Insights like these unquestion- ably spring from imagination , but ...
... light . Newton noticed the unexpected regularity in the way light moved through a prism , and he was inspired to imagine parti- cles of light moving in straight lines . Insights like these unquestion- ably spring from imagination , but ...
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... light travels in waves . Robert Hooke did not believe that light came in particles . Both were wrong . Ernest Rutherford maintained that a chain reaction could not produce an atomic explosion . Fred Hoyle wrote equations that described ...
... light travels in waves . Robert Hooke did not believe that light came in particles . Both were wrong . Ernest Rutherford maintained that a chain reaction could not produce an atomic explosion . Fred Hoyle wrote equations that described ...
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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