The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

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George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured the pull of gravity and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his own eye, to Joule packing a thermometer on his honeymoon to take the temperature of waterfalls and Michelson recovering from a dark depression to discover that light moves at the same speed in every direction – these ten dedicated men employed diamonds, dogs, frogs and even their own bodies as they worked to discover the laws of nature and of the universe.

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Weight 0.183 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

208
Publisher

Year Published

2009-5-7
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099464586
About The Author

George Johnson is a science-writer for the New York Times and has also had work published in Scientific America, Time, Slate and Wired and in the collections The Best American Scientific Writing. His blog, The Cancer Chronicles, can be found at http://www.santafereview.com/chronicle

Entertaining, finely crafted… there is a feast of fine science writing in this gem of a book
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Johnson's essays balance human interest and scientific wonder in equal measure, making for a delicious succession of vignettes

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