The Art of Science by Richard Hamblyn

The Art of Science by Richard Hamblyn

Science. Does the word fill you with excitement, or dread, or something in between? Science -- and the art of science writing -- can, and should, be something to get excited about. The extracts featured in this anthology span centuries and continents, but are connected by their authors' desire to understand, explain and enrich the world. The Art of Science is not a book about great scientific theories, complicated equations or grand old men and women in their laboratories; instead, it's about the places we draw our inspiration from; about daily routines and sudden flashes of insight; about dedication, and -- sometimes -- desperation; and the small moments, questions, quests, clashes, doubts and delights that ultimately make us human. From Galileo to Lewis Carroll, from Humphry Davy to Charles Darwin, from Marie Curie to Stephen Jay Gould, from rust to snowflakes, from the first use of the word 'scientist' to the first computer, from why the sea is salty to Newtonian physics 'for the ladies', The Art of Science is a book about people, which is to say it's a book about passion, politics, and poetry. Above all, though, it's a book about the good that science, and scientific thinking, can -- and does -- do.

Richard Hamblyn was born in 1965 and is a graduate of the universities of Essex and of Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the early history of geology in Britain. He lives and works in London.

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ISBN 13	9780330490757
ISBN 10	0330490753
Titel	The Art of Science
Autor	Richard Hamblyn
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Pan Macmillan
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-10-07
Seitenanzahl	512
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