The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - Hardcover
From the universally praised New York Times science writer George Johnson ("He provides some of the best science writing I have come across in a long time"-Paul Davies), an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science-moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.
Ch. 1 - Galileo: The Way Things Really Move
Ch. 2 - William Harvey: Mysteries of the Heart
Ch. 3 - Isaac Newton: What a Colour Is
Ch. 4 - Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier: The Farmer's Daughter
Ch. 5 - Luigi Galvini: Animal Electricity
Ch. 6 - Michel Faraday: Something Deeply Hidden
Ch. 7 - James Joule: How the World Works
Ch. 8 - A. Michelson: Lost in Space
Ch. 9 - Ivan Pavlov: Measuring the Immeasurable
Ch. 10 - Robert Millikan: In the Borderland
The diligence of all these scientists was rewarded: in an instant, confusion was swept aside, and something new about nature leapt into view.
Ch. 1 - Galileo: The Way Things Really Move
Ch. 2 - William Harvey: Mysteries of the Heart
Ch. 3 - Isaac Newton: What a Colour Is
Ch. 4 - Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier: The Farmer's Daughter
Ch. 5 - Luigi Galvini: Animal Electricity
Ch. 6 - Michel Faraday: Something Deeply Hidden
Ch. 7 - James Joule: How the World Works
Ch. 8 - A. Michelson: Lost in Space
Ch. 9 - Ivan Pavlov: Measuring the Immeasurable
Ch. 10 - Robert Millikan: In the Borderland
The diligence of all these scientists was rewarded: in an instant, confusion was swept aside, and something new about nature leapt into view.
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"Delightful, succinct, elegant." (Roger Penrose)
"Johnson's mix of the personal, the erudite and crystalline prose is -- like the pull of gravity (see beautiful experiment number 1) -- an irresistible force." (Scientific American)
"As a science journalist, Mr. Johnson is a seasoned translator of technical jargon. He also has a sharp eye for human plot, both in and out of the laboratory . . . a certain spirit of wonder breathes through Mr. Johnson's chapters." (New York Sun)
"Johnson has a good feel for detail . . . and an easy touch with larger concepts . . . Johnson's lively book nicely evokes the lost world of the tabletop experiment ." (New York Times Book Review)
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"Johnson's mix of the personal, the erudite and crystalline prose is -- like the pull of gravity (see beautiful experiment number 1) -- an irresistible force." (Scientific American)
"As a science journalist, Mr. Johnson is a seasoned translator of technical jargon. He also has a sharp eye for human plot, both in and out of the laboratory . . . a certain spirit of wonder breathes through Mr. Johnson's chapters." (New York Sun)
"Johnson has a good feel for detail . . . and an easy touch with larger concepts . . . Johnson's lively book nicely evokes the lost world of the tabletop experiment ." (New York Times Book Review)
One of the world's finest science journalists tells the story of the ten greatest scientific experiments - which in a moment profoundly changed our understanding of the universe.
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- PublisherBodley Head
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0224071963
- ISBN 13 9780224071963
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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