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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... importance for us, for our biosphere, and for the cosmos, gravity is actually amazingly feeble compared with the ... important number, N, which is the same irrespective of how widely separated the protons are. When two hydrogen atoms ...
... importance for us, for our biosphere, and for the cosmos, gravity is actually amazingly feeble compared with the ... important number, N, which is the same irrespective of how widely separated the protons are. When two hydrogen atoms ...
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... important to us because we live on the heavy Earth. We can quantify this. In Chapter 1, we envisaged a set of pictures, each being viewed from ten times as far as the last. Imagine now a set of differently sized spheres, containing ...
... important to us because we live on the heavy Earth. We can quantify this. In Chapter 1, we envisaged a set of pictures, each being viewed from ten times as far as the last. Imagine now a set of differently sized spheres, containing ...
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... Important and interesting as that technical sense of 'chaos' undoubtedly is, I deplore the hijacking of the word. □ Why Things Change Change takes a variety of forms. There is simple change, as when a bouncing ball comes to rest, or ...
... Important and interesting as that technical sense of 'chaos' undoubtedly is, I deplore the hijacking of the word. □ Why Things Change Change takes a variety of forms. There is simple change, as when a bouncing ball comes to rest, or ...
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... quite indistinguishable from one of the homozygous forms. The fact of dominance, though of the greatest theoretical interest, is not an essential feature of the factorial system, and in several important cases . 21 R. A. FISHER.
... quite indistinguishable from one of the homozygous forms. The fact of dominance, though of the greatest theoretical interest, is not an essential feature of the factorial system, and in several important cases . 21 R. A. FISHER.
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Richard Dawkins. feature of the factorial system, and in several important cases is lacking altogether. Mendel also demonstrated what a theorist could scarcely have ventured to postulate, that the different factors examined by him in ...
Richard Dawkins. feature of the factorial system, and in several important cases is lacking altogether. Mendel also demonstrated what a theorist could scarcely have ventured to postulate, that the different factors examined by him in ...
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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