The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingSelected 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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Both these forces depend on distance in the same way (both follow an'inverse square' law), and so their relative ... When two hydrogen atoms are bound together in a molecule, the electric force between the protons is neutralized by the ...
Both these forces depend on distance in the same way (both follow an'inverse square' law), and so their relative ... When two hydrogen atoms are bound together in a molecule, the electric force between the protons is neutralized by the ...
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So gravity will have caught up for the fifty-fourth object (54 = 36 × 3/2), which has about Jupiter's mass. any still heavier lump more massive than Jupiter, gravity is so strong that it overwhelms the forces that hold solids together.
So gravity will have caught up for the fifty-fourth object (54 = 36 × 3/2), which has about Jupiter's mass. any still heavier lump more massive than Jupiter, gravity is so strong that it overwhelms the forces that hold solids together.
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Gravitation is feebler than the forces governing the microworld by the number N, about 1036. What would happen if it weren't quite so weak? Imagine, for instance, a universe where gravity was ...
Gravitation is feebler than the forces governing the microworld by the number N, about 1036. What would happen if it weren't quite so weak? Imagine, for instance, a universe where gravity was ...
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Gravity is the organizing force for the cosmos ... [It] is crucial in allowing structure to unfold from a Big Bang that was initially almost featureless. But it is only because it is weak compared with other forces that large and ...
Gravity is the organizing force for the cosmos ... [It] is crucial in allowing structure to unfold from a Big Bang that was initially almost featureless. But it is only because it is weak compared with other forces that large and ...
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Comentário do usuário - stretch - LibraryThingHow do you pick the best science writing of the twentieth century? Really it all comes down to a matter of opinion, which almost always results in the complaint and special pleading for authors and ... Ler resenha completa
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Comentário do usuário - JanetinLondon - LibraryThingI got this book from the library, thinking it would be a series of essays on different aspects of science. However, it turned out to be a completely different sort of book – short extracts from books ... Ler resenha completa
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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| Título | The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing Oxford Landmark Science |
| Editor | Richard Dawkins |
| Editora | Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0191550841, 9780191550843 |
| Num. págs. | 439 páginas |
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