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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... Original Type ( 1859 ) 389 Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy ( 1863 ) 400 Albert Einstein : Two Theories of Relativity ( 1916 ) 409 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ ᎢᎻᎡᎬᎬ Style in the Scientific Imagination CHAPTER TEN 413 " It Is in Some ...
... Original Type ( 1859 ) 389 Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy ( 1863 ) 400 Albert Einstein : Two Theories of Relativity ( 1916 ) 409 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ ᎢᎻᎡᎬᎬ Style in the Scientific Imagination CHAPTER TEN 413 " It Is in Some ...
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... Original Type Thomas H. Huxley : The Darwinian Hypothesis Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy James Clerk Maxwell : Molecules Ernst Mach : A New Sense Robert Kennedy Duncan : Radio - Activity : A New Property of Matter ...
... Original Type Thomas H. Huxley : The Darwinian Hypothesis Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation of Energy James Clerk Maxwell : Molecules Ernst Mach : A New Sense Robert Kennedy Duncan : Radio - Activity : A New Property of Matter ...
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... Schaller : Mating Seasons ( 1980 ) Alfred Wallace : On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type ( 1859 ) James Watson : The Double Bases ( 1968 ) CHEMISTRY Isaac Asimov : Death in the Laboratory ( 1965.
... Schaller : Mating Seasons ( 1980 ) Alfred Wallace : On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type ( 1859 ) James Watson : The Double Bases ( 1968 ) CHEMISTRY Isaac Asimov : Death in the Laboratory ( 1965.
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... original . ( If you see just ... without the brackets , the ellipsis was in the original . ) The main reason for the cuts was space . Sometimes an author made a reference to a remark not found in this anthology . For example , a ...
... original . ( If you see just ... without the brackets , the ellipsis was in the original . ) The main reason for the cuts was space . Sometimes an author made a reference to a remark not found in this anthology . For example , a ...
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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 |
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