Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing

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Edmund 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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Contents

V
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IX
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X
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XII
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XIII
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XVII
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XVIII
53
XX
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LVII
250
LVIII
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LIX
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LXI
274
LXIII
284
LXV
290
LXVII
301
LXIX
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XXIV
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XXV
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XXVI
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XXIX
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XXX
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XXXI
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XXXIII
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XXXV
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XXXVII
129
XXXVIII
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XXXIX
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XL
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XLI
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XLIII
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XLV
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XLVI
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XLVII
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XLVIII
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L
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LI
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LII
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LIII
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LIV
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LV
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LXX
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LXXII
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LXXIII
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LXXIV
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LXXVI
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LXXVII
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LXXVIII
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LXXIX
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LXXX
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LXXXI
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LXXXV
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LXXXVI
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LXXXVII
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LXXXVIII
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LXXXIX
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XCII
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XCIV
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XCV
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XCVI
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XCVII
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XCVIII
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XCIX
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CI
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CII
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About the author (1999)

Edmund Blair Bolles is a former Peace Corps teacher who grew up in Washington, D.C.; Paris, France; and Toledo, Ohio. His undergraduate degree is from Washington University in St. Louis, and he has a Masters in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Bolles' books include Babel's Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech and A Second Way of Knowing: The Riddle of Human Perception. He lives in New York City.

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