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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This 'human scale' is, in a numerical sense, poised midway between the masses of atoms and stars. It would take roughly as many human bodies to make up the of the Sun as there are atoms in each of us. But our Sun is just an ordinary ...
This 'human scale' is, in a numerical sense, poised midway between the masses of atoms and stars. It would take roughly as many human bodies to make up the of the Sun as there are atoms in each of us. But our Sun is just an ordinary ...
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Creatures like us require special conditions to have evolved, so our perspective is bound to be in some sense atypical. The vastness of our universe shouldn't surprise us, even though we may still seek a deeper explanation for its ...
Creatures like us require special conditions to have evolved, so our perspective is bound to be in some sense atypical. The vastness of our universe shouldn't surprise us, even though we may still seek a deeper explanation for its ...
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Notice, by the way, that Atkins uses the word 'chaos' in its normal sense of disorder, which is rather different from a special technical sense popularized as the 'butterfly effect' (one flap of a butterfly's wing could in theory ...
Notice, by the way, that Atkins uses the word 'chaos' in its normal sense of disorder, which is rather different from a special technical sense popularized as the 'butterfly effect' (one flap of a butterfly's wing could in theory ...
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I feel the same sense of reverential hush when I read Darwin's great twentieth-century successor R. A. Fisher. I think it is right to include 18 . WHAT SCIENTISTS STUDY R. A. Fisher from THE GENETICAL THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION.
I feel the same sense of reverential hush when I read Darwin's great twentieth-century successor R. A. Fisher. I think it is right to include 18 . WHAT SCIENTISTS STUDY R. A. Fisher from THE GENETICAL THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION.
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My genes have indeed determined what I am, but only in the sense that, given the succession of environments and experiences that were mine, a carrier of a different set of genes might have become unlike myself. It is sometimes said that ...
My genes have indeed determined what I am, but only in the sense that, given the succession of environments and experiences that were mine, a carrier of a different set of genes might have become unlike myself. It is sometimes said that ...
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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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Informações bibliográficas
| 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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