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Philip Ball

Philip Ball is a British science writer and editor. For over twenty years he has been an editor of the journal Nature for which he continues to write regularly. Besides articles for journals, magazines, and newspapers, he has authored books on science and broadcast on many occasions on radio and TV. - Wikipedia

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  • Cover of: Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

    Cover of edition brightearthinven0000ball Cover of edition brightearthinven0000ball_r3v7 First published in 2001 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

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  • Cover of: Invisible: the dangerous allure of the unseen

    First published in 2014 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The sun and moon corrupted

    First published in 2008 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Shapes: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts (Natures Patterns)

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  • Cover of: An Englishman Abroad

    First published in 2004 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water

    First published in 2000 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral

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  • Cover of: The devil's doctor: Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science

    First published in 2006 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Curiosity: how science became interested in everything

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  • Cover of: Critical mass: how one thing leads to another

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  • Cover of: H2o Una Biografa Del Agua

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  • Cover of: Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The ingredients: a guided tour of the elements

    First published in 2002 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Stories of the invisible: a guided tour of molecules

    First published in 2001 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The water kingdom: a secret history of China

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  • Cover of: Yu zhi she hui: qun ti xing wei de nei zai fa ze = Critical mass : how one thing leads to another

    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Why society is a complex matter: meeting twenty-first century challenges with a new kind of science

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  • Cover of: The music instinct: how music works and why we can't do without it

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Born 1962

Subjects

History, Chemistry, Pattern formation (Biology), Science, Pattern formation (Physical sciences), Popular works, Chaotic behavior in systems, Social aspects, Water, Biology, Chemical elements, Developmental biology, Materials, Molecules, Science, history, Alchemists, Alchemy, Biography, Chemistry, popular works, Geometry in nature, Histoire, Human behavior, Music, Music and science, Natural law

Places

China, Germany, Switzerland

People

Paracelsus (1493-1541), Max Planck (1858-1947), Peter J. W. Debye (1884-1966), Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)

Time

16th century, 1933-1945, 20th century

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July 25, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Author Bio
July 25, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Added new photo
October 22, 2012 Edited by Kel Ly merge authors
April 29, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import