The Faber Book of Science
Author: John Carey (Editor)
Translator: Moon-young Kim, et al.
Publisher: Badachulpansa
Hardcover | 822 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Covering hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust,
protons, photons and neutrinos, this anthology plots the development of
modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It consists of
accounts by scientists themselves - astronomers, physicists, biologists,
chemists, psychologists - who talk about their moments of breakthrough.
Ronald Ross describes his discovery of the secret of malaria; the
workers in Edison's laboratory put together the first electric-light
bulb; and readers share in the construction of the world's first atomic
pile.The book shows how science has changed art: how Newton's "Optics"
flooded 18th-century poetry with colour; how the vastness of geological
time terrified Tennyson and the Victorians; and how modernist writers
struggled to adapt to Einstein's relativity. The classic science-writers
are included - Darwin, T.H. Huxley, and Jean Henri Fabre tracking
insects through the Provencal countryside. So too are today's experts -
Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA, and
many other representatives of the late-20th-century genre of
popular-science writing.
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