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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... Thought ( 1932 ) Gordon W. Allport : The Mature Personality ( 1937 ) Fred Hoyle : The Expanding Universe ( 1950 ) 301 301 306 317 322 Loren C. Eiseley : Little Men and Flying Saucers ( 1953 ) Werner Heisenberg : Atomic Physics and ...
... Thought ( 1932 ) Gordon W. Allport : The Mature Personality ( 1937 ) Fred Hoyle : The Expanding Universe ( 1950 ) 301 301 306 317 322 Loren C. Eiseley : Little Men and Flying Saucers ( 1953 ) Werner Heisenberg : Atomic Physics and ...
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... Thought Ernest Rutherford : The Transmutation of the Atom Gordon W. Allport : The Mature Personality Julian Huxley : Animals Courting Herbert Butterfield : Chemistry Transformed Fred Hoyle : The Expanding Universe Rachel Carson : The ...
... Thought Ernest Rutherford : The Transmutation of the Atom Gordon W. Allport : The Mature Personality Julian Huxley : Animals Courting Herbert Butterfield : Chemistry Transformed Fred Hoyle : The Expanding Universe Rachel Carson : The ...
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... Thought ( 1932 ) Edmund Blair Bolles : Gestalt Psychology ( 1991 ) Noam Chomsky : The Case Against B. F. Skinner ( 1974 ) Ernst Mach : A New Sense ( 1897 ) I. P. Pavlov : The Atoms of Activity ( 1924 ) Jean Piaget : Learning to See ...
... Thought ( 1932 ) Edmund Blair Bolles : Gestalt Psychology ( 1991 ) Noam Chomsky : The Case Against B. F. Skinner ( 1974 ) Ernst Mach : A New Sense ( 1897 ) I. P. Pavlov : The Atoms of Activity ( 1924 ) Jean Piaget : Learning to See ...
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... thought the Nile Valley used to be a lake . It was not . Isaac Newton denied that light travels in waves . Robert Hooke did not believe that light came in particles . Both were wrong . Ernest Rutherford maintained that a chain reaction ...
... thought the Nile Valley used to be a lake . It was not . Isaac Newton denied that light travels in waves . Robert Hooke did not believe that light came in particles . Both were wrong . Ernest Rutherford maintained that a chain reaction ...
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... thought . The science in these stories seems like pure pie on earth . Ask the question ; get the answer . Even in Isaac Asimov's essay , in which a search lasts for centuries , it is centuries of steady progress . Chapter 2 finds the ...
... thought . The science in these stories seems like pure pie on earth . Ask the question ; get the answer . Even in Isaac Asimov's essay , in which a search lasts for centuries , it is centuries of steady progress . Chapter 2 finds the ...
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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