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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... Rocks ( 1981 ) 49 Herbert Butterfield : Chemistry Transformed ( 1949 ) 53 Jean Piaget : Learning to See Through Another's Eyes ( 1928 ) 63 CHAPTER THREE " The Actual Limits of What Is Known " 71 Stephen Jay Gould : The Misuse of Darwin ...
... Rocks ( 1981 ) 49 Herbert Butterfield : Chemistry Transformed ( 1949 ) 53 Jean Piaget : Learning to See Through Another's Eyes ( 1928 ) 63 CHAPTER THREE " The Actual Limits of What Is Known " 71 Stephen Jay Gould : The Misuse of Darwin ...
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... Rocks Heinz R. Pagels : Making the Observer Count Stephen Jay Gould : The Misuse of Darwin Louise B. Young : How Ice Changed the World Fred Alan Wolf : Waves Without a Breeze Richard Preston : Dark Time Edward Harrison : The Golden ...
... Rocks Heinz R. Pagels : Making the Observer Count Stephen Jay Gould : The Misuse of Darwin Louise B. Young : How Ice Changed the World Fred Alan Wolf : Waves Without a Breeze Richard Preston : Dark Time Edward Harrison : The Golden ...
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... Rocks ( 1981 ) Horace Bénédict de Saussure : The Movement of Glaciers ( 1796 ) Walter Sullivan : Looking for the Drift ( 1974 ) Leonardo da Vinci : Seashells in the Mountains ( 1480-1515 ) Alfred Wegener : Jigsaw Continents ( 1929 ) ...
... Rocks ( 1981 ) Horace Bénédict de Saussure : The Movement of Glaciers ( 1796 ) Walter Sullivan : Looking for the Drift ( 1974 ) Leonardo da Vinci : Seashells in the Mountains ( 1480-1515 ) Alfred Wegener : Jigsaw Continents ( 1929 ) ...
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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 |
Other editions - View all
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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