An edition of Seeing Further
(2010)
Seeing further
the story of science, discovery, and the genius of the Royal Society
1st Harper Perennial ed.
by Bill Bryson and Jon Turney
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Seeing further: the story of science, discovery, and the genius of the Royal Society
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Table of Contents
At the beginning : more things in heaven and earth -- James Gleick
Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's grand academy -- Margaret Atwood
Lost in space : the spiritual crisis of Newtonian cosmology -- Margaret Wertheim
Atoms of cognition : metaphysics in the Royal Society -- Neal Stephenson
What's in a name? : Rivalries and the birth of modern science -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Charged atmospheres : promethean science and the Royal Society -- Simon Schaffer
A new age of flight : Joseph Banks goes ballooning -- Richard Holmes
Archives of life : science and collections -- Richard Fortey
Darwin's five bridges : the way to natural selection -- Richard Dawkins
Images of progress : conferences of engineers -- Henry Petroski
X-ray visions : structural biologists and social action in the twentieth century -- Georgina Ferry
Ten thousand wedges : biodiversity, natural selection and random change -- Steve Jones
Making stuff : From Bacon to bakelite -- Philip Ball
Just typical : our changing place in the universe -- Paul Davies
Behind the scenes : the hidden mathematics that rules our world -- Ian Stewart
Simple, really : from simplicity to complexity--and back again -- John D. Barrow
Globe and sphere, cycles and flows : how to see the world -- Oliver Morton
Beyond ending : looking into the void -- Maggie Gee
Confidence, consensus and the uncertainty cops : tackling risk management in climate change -- Stephen H. Schneider
Time : the winged chariot -- Gregory Benford
Conclusion: Looking fifty years ahead -- Martin Rees.
Edition Notes
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2010 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers" -- T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-489) and index.
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