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Seeing Further : The Story of Science (Larger Print)
Seeing Further The Story of Science - Larger Print Author:Bill Bryson (Editor) Bill Bryson, who explored all—or at least a great deal of—current scientific knowledge in A Short History of Nearly Everything, now turns his attention to the history of that knowledge. In Seeing Further, he has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to celebrate 350 years of ... more »the Royal Society, Britain’s scientific national academy. The result is an encyclopedic survey of the history, philosophy and current state of science, written in an accessible and inspiring style by some of today’s most important authors.
The contributors include Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, Neal Stephenson, and Maragret Atwood among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened end-times of flu and climate change to our evolving ideas about the nature of time itself, from the hidden mathematics that rule the universe to the cosmological principle that guides Star Trek.
A note on the format: Bryson contributes a general introduction to the book, as well as individual introductions at the start of each chapter.
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