The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingRichard Dawkins Oxford University Press, 13 de mar. de 2008 - 439 páginas Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science. |
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... Earth (2009). He has also published a science book for children, The Magic of Reality (2011), and two volumes of memoirs, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015). Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society ...
... Earth (2009). He has also published a science book for children, The Magic of Reality (2011), and two volumes of memoirs, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015). Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society ...
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... earth exists, for accidents will happen, and if the universe goes on for long enough, every conceivable accident is likely to happen in time. It was, I think, Huxley who said that six monkeys, set to strum unintelligently on typewriters ...
... earth exists, for accidents will happen, and if the universe goes on for long enough, every conceivable accident is likely to happen in time. It was, I think, Huxley who said that six monkeys, set to strum unintelligently on typewriters ...
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... Earth has taken 4.5 billion years. Even before our Sun and its planets could form, earlier stars must have transmuted pristine hydrogen into carbon, oxygen and the other atoms of the periodic table. This has taken about ten billion ...
... Earth has taken 4.5 billion years. Even before our Sun and its planets could form, earlier stars must have transmuted pristine hydrogen into carbon, oxygen and the other atoms of the periodic table. This has taken about ten billion ...
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... Earth. But their self-gravity—the gravitational pull that their constituent atoms exert on each other, rather than on the entire Earth—is negligible. Self-gravity is not important in asteroids, nor in Mars's two small potato-shaped ...
... Earth. But their self-gravity—the gravitational pull that their constituent atoms exert on each other, rather than on the entire Earth—is negligible. Self-gravity is not important in asteroids, nor in Mars's two small potato-shaped ...
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... Earth) is unlikely to happen in our own Solar System. But what would preclude a complex ecosystem even more would be the limited time available for development. Heat would leak more quickly from these 'mini-stars': in this hypothetical ...
... Earth) is unlikely to happen in our own Solar System. But what would preclude a complex ecosystem even more would be the limited time available for development. Heat would leak more quickly from these 'mini-stars': in this hypothetical ...
Conteúdo
PART II WHO SCIENTISTS ARE | 149 |
PART III WHAT SCIENTISTS THINK | 245 |
PART IV WHAT SCIENTISTS DELIGHT IN | 347 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 397 |
INDEX | 401 |
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