Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre by Len Fisher

Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre by Len Fisher

Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense.

One experiment, involving a bed, platform scales, and a dying man, seemed to prove that the soul weighed the same as a slice of bread. But other, no less fanciful experiments and ideas led to the fundamentals of our understanding of movement, heat, light, and energy, and such things as the discovery of electricity, and the structure of DNA; improved engines; and the invention of computers. As in his previous book, Fisher uses personal stories and examples from everyday life, as well as humor, to make the science accessible. He touches on topics from lightning to corsets and from alchemy to Frankenstein and water babies, but he may not claim the last word on the weight of the soul

The Perfect Swarm, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Measuring the Soul, and the prize-winning How to Dunk a Doughnut are all written by Len Fisher, Ph.D. He splits his time between Blackheath, Australia, and Wiltshire, UK.

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ISBN 13	9781611457421
ISBN 10	1611457424
Title	Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre
Author	Len Fisher
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Skyhorse Publishing
Year published	2013-03-01
Number of pages	256
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