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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Page xv
... scientists just coming into his lab would think that their own difficulties were unusual , a mark of inferiority . Some published scientists , as well , are dissatisfied with this aloofness . Once I interviewed a neuroscientist who kept ...
... scientists just coming into his lab would think that their own difficulties were unusual , a mark of inferiority . Some published scientists , as well , are dissatisfied with this aloofness . Once I interviewed a neuroscientist who kept ...
Page xvi
... scientist . Earlier writers like Jonathan Swift had portrayed crackpot scientists who pursued impossible ambi- tions , but the new crackpot , like Dr. Frankenstein , was crazy in anoth- er way . He was mad because he was successful and ...
... scientist . Earlier writers like Jonathan Swift had portrayed crackpot scientists who pursued impossible ambi- tions , but the new crackpot , like Dr. Frankenstein , was crazy in anoth- er way . He was mad because he was successful and ...
Page xvii
... scientists , both famous and forgotten , professional or not , can be found here . The oldest selection in this volume comes from Herodotus , the Greek historian and traveler who wrote a splendid nat- ural history of the Nile Valley ...
... scientists , both famous and forgotten , professional or not , can be found here . The oldest selection in this volume comes from Herodotus , the Greek historian and traveler who wrote a splendid nat- ural history of the Nile Valley ...
Page xix
... Scientists too must be ruthless with themselves . Although they test their ideas by means of experiment , they must also search for alter- native explanations and counterexamples . Francis Bacon helped launch the scientific era by ...
... Scientists too must be ruthless with themselves . Although they test their ideas by means of experiment , they must also search for alter- native explanations and counterexamples . Francis Bacon helped launch the scientific era by ...
Page xx
... scientist , yet the more that sci- entists contribute to science , the more of themselves ends up in their writing . Perhaps the best illustration of voice's place is in the writing of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace . Each ...
... scientist , yet the more that sci- entists contribute to science , the more of themselves ends up in their writing . Perhaps the best illustration of voice's place is in the writing of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace . Each ...
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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