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Seeing further : the story of science & the Royal Society

Author: Bill Bryson; Jon Turney
Publisher: London : HarperPress, 2010.
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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bill Bryson; Jon Turney
ISBN: 9780007302567 0007302568
OCLC Number: 440112009
Credits: Edited & introduced by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor, Jon Turney.
Description: 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: At the beginning : more things in heaven and earth / James Gleck --
Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's grand academy / Margaret Atwood --
Lost in space : the spiritual crisis of Newtonian cosmology / Margaret Wertheim --
Atoms of cognition : metaphysics in the Royal Society, 1715-2010 / Neal Stephenson --
What's in a name? : rivalries and the birth of modern science / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein --
Charged atmospheres : Promethean science and the Royal Society / Simon Schaffer --
A new age of flight : Joseph Banks goes ballooning / Richard Holmes --
Archives of life : science and collections / Richard Fortey --
Darwin's five bridges : the way to natural selection / Richard Dawkins --
Images of progress : conferences of engineers / Henry Petroski --
X-ray visions : structural biologists and social action in the twentieth century / Georgina Ferry --
Ten thousand wedges : biodiversity, natural selection, and random change / Steve Jones --
Making stuff : from Bacon to Bakelite / Philip Ball --
Just typical : our changing place in the universe / Paul Davies --
Behind the scenes : the hidden mathematics that rules our world / Ian Stewart --
Simple, really : from simplicity to complexity - and back again / John D. Barrow --
Globe and sphere, cycles and flows : how to see the world / Oliver Morton --
Beyond ending : looking into the void / Maggie Gee --
Confidence, consensus, and the uncertainty cops : tackling risk management in climate change / Stephen H. Schneider --
Time : the winged chariot / Gregory Benford --
Conclusion : looking fifty years ahead / Martin Ress.
Responsibility: edited by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor Jon Turney.
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"Bill Bryson is as amusing as ever . . . As a celebration of modern science, "Seeing Further" is a worthy tribute."--The Economist

 
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