Art of Science

A Natural History of Ideas

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Science is about discovery, a journey towards knowledge.With authors as diverse as Galileo and Lewis Carroll, the extracts featured in this anthology span centuries and continents; they include startling revelations that changed the way we think and tackle more prosaic questions such as why the sea is salty; they consider the natural beauty of the snowflake and the man-made wonder of the first computer. What links them all is a desire to understand, explain and enrich the world, and the ability to communicate this in original, clear and engaging prose.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-10-25
Mått127 x 203 x 29 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor512
FörlagPan Macmillan
ISBN9780330490764

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Richard Hamblyn is the author of The Invention of Clouds, which won the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Terra: Tales of the Earth, a study of natural disasters, Data Soliloquies, co-written with the digital artist Martin John Callanan, and The Cloud Book, published in association with the Met Office. He teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College, University of London.