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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The size of the observable universe is, roughly, the distance travelled by light since the Big Bang, and so the present visible universe must be around ten billion light-years across. This is a startling conclusion.
The size of the observable universe is, roughly, the distance travelled by light since the Big Bang, and so the present visible universe must be around ten billion light-years across. This is a startling conclusion.
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In the light of Darwinian theory, the answers to both questions, and to a host of other questions about the organic world, fall into place. Darwin and Wallace assumed that living things had evolved. Their problem was to find the ...
In the light of Darwinian theory, the answers to both questions, and to a host of other questions about the organic world, fall into place. Darwin and Wallace assumed that living things had evolved. Their problem was to find the ...
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But to reject the data as throwing no light at all on genetic conditioning is unreasonable: notable development of certain special abilities does occur in persons who are possessors of special genetic endowments.
But to reject the data as throwing no light at all on genetic conditioning is unreasonable: notable development of certain special abilities does occur in persons who are possessors of special genetic endowments.
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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
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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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