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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... Mountains ( 1480-1515 ) 104 Charles Darwin : Birds of the Galapagos ( 1839 ) 111 George B. Schaller : Mating Seasons ( 1980 ) 116 CHAPTER FIVE " But What Are They ? " 125 Herodotus : The Creation of Egypt ( 444 B.C. ) 125 Horace ...
... Mountains ( 1480-1515 ) 104 Charles Darwin : Birds of the Galapagos ( 1839 ) 111 George B. Schaller : Mating Seasons ( 1980 ) 116 CHAPTER FIVE " But What Are They ? " 125 Herodotus : The Creation of Egypt ( 444 B.C. ) 125 Horace ...
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... Mountains Galileo Galilei : First Look Through a Telescope Johannes Kepler : I Admit the Moon Has Seas Francis Bacon : Idols of the Tribe Galileo Galilei : Where Is the Center of the Universe ? Galileo Galilei : The Speed of Falling ...
... Mountains Galileo Galilei : First Look Through a Telescope Johannes Kepler : I Admit the Moon Has Seas Francis Bacon : Idols of the Tribe Galileo Galilei : Where Is the Center of the Universe ? Galileo Galilei : The Speed of Falling ...
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... Mountains ( 1480-1515 ) Alfred Wegener : Jigsaw Continents ( 1929 ) Louise B. Young : How Ice Changed the World ( 1983 ) PHYSICS Paul Davies : Schrodinger's Cats and Wigner's Friends ( 1980 ) Robert Kennedy Duncan : Radio - Activity : A ...
... Mountains ( 1480-1515 ) Alfred Wegener : Jigsaw Continents ( 1929 ) Louise B. Young : How Ice Changed the World ( 1983 ) PHYSICS Paul Davies : Schrodinger's Cats and Wigner's Friends ( 1980 ) Robert Kennedy Duncan : Radio - Activity : A ...
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... In this case , Galileo did not even have a grand organizing idea such as Wallace enjoyed . Yet his considerable imagination let him recognize mountains on the moon , moons around Jupiter , and an immensity of xviii INTRODUCTION.
... In this case , Galileo did not even have a grand organizing idea such as Wallace enjoyed . Yet his considerable imagination let him recognize mountains on the moon , moons around Jupiter , and an immensity of xviii INTRODUCTION.
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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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Galileo's Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing Edmund Blair Bolles No preview available - 1997 |
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