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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... side of what they read . I recall , for example , the head of a research lab who wor- ried that papers in modern science journals had become so abstract that they almost never gave readers any sense of an author who had wrestled with ...
... side of what they read . I recall , for example , the head of a research lab who wor- ried that papers in modern science journals had become so abstract that they almost never gave readers any sense of an author who had wrestled with ...
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... side of the story . Rather , imagination is active throughout the work , in every paragraph and line of dialogue . The same holds true for great science writing . For example , in Wallace's essay on evolution , his imagination is always ...
... side of the story . Rather , imagination is active throughout the work , in every paragraph and line of dialogue . The same holds true for great science writing . For example , in Wallace's essay on evolution , his imagination is always ...
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... side in his look at how technical language simultaneously appalls people while allowing sci- entists to speak precisely to one another . According to this chapter , progress is not inevitable . The chapter's sources of scientific ...
... side in his look at how technical language simultaneously appalls people while allowing sci- entists to speak precisely to one another . According to this chapter , progress is not inevitable . The chapter's sources of scientific ...
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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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