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catalog abstract "A treasury of science writings drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and ranging throughout history, from Herodotus's comments on the creation of Egypt made in 444 B.C., to George Smoot's search for the Big Bang in 1994.".
catalog contributor b10351195.
catalog created "1997.".
catalog date "1997".
catalog date "1997.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
catalog description "A treasury of science writings drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and ranging throughout history, from Herodotus's comments on the creation of Egypt made in 444 B.C., to George Smoot's search for the Big Bang in 1994.".
catalog description "Galton's Genetics / William Bateson -- Gestalt Psychology / Edmund Blair Bolles -- What Einstein Did / Bertrand Russell -- A Science in Change / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- "Somehow the Wave Had to Exist" -- The End of the Universe / Sir James Janes -- Imagery in Thought / Frederic C. Bartlett -- The Mature Personality / Gordon W. Allport -- The Expanding Universe / Fred Hoyle -- Little Men and Flying Saucers / Loren C. Eiseley -- Atomic Physics and Causal Law / Werner Heisenberg -- The Distinction of Past and Future / Richard Feynman -- The Golden Walls of Edgar Allan Poe / Edward Harrison -- Waves Without a Breeze / Fred Alan Wolf -- Making the Observer Count / Heinz R. Pagels -- Schrodinger's Cats and Wigner's Friends / Paul Davies -- "Every Intellect Which Strives After Generalization Must Feel the Temptation" -- Preface to The Elements of Chemistry / Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type / Alfred Wallace -- ".
catalog description "Part One. The scientific imagination examined. -- Ch. 1. "Every real problem can and will be solved" -- Ch. 2. "Language of the sort that would have attracted Gilbert and Sullivan" -- Ch. 3. "The actual limits of what is known" -- Part Two. The scientific imagination in action. -- Ch. 4. "Brought near to that great fact--that mystery of mysteries" -- Ch. 5. "But what are they?" -- Ch. 6. "The demonstration that cost so much effort" -- Ch. 7. "Those who would judge the book must read it" -- Ch. 8. "Somehow the wave had to exist" -- Ch. 9. "Every intellect which strives after generalization must feel the temptation" -- Part Three. Style in the scientific imagination. -- Ch. 10. "It is in some fashion a history."".
catalog description "The Conservation of Energy / Hermann von Helmholtz -- Two Theories of Relativity / Albert Einstein -- Style in the Scientific Imagination -- "It Is in Some Fashion a History" -- The Speed of Falling Bodies / Galileo Galilei -- The Persistence of Atoms / Lucretius -- Food Control in Insect Societies / J.B.S. Haldane -- Animals Courting / Julian Huxley -- The Long Snowfall / Rachel Carson -- How Ice Changed the World / Louise B. Young -- Dark Time / Richard Preston -- Carbon / Primo Levi.".
catalog description "The Creation of Egypt / Herodotus -- The Movement of Glaciers / Horace Benedict de Saussure -- Molecules / James Clerk Maxwell -- Radio-Activity: A New Property of Matter / Robert Kennedy Duncan -- The Atoms of Activity / I.P. Pavlov -- Classifying the Stars / Annie J. Cannon -- "The Demonstration That Cost So Much Effort" -- Where is the Center of the Universe? / Galileo Galilei -- Doubting the Four Elements / Robert Boyle -- Dispute on the Nature of Light / Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke -- Obtaining Radium / Marie Curie -- Jigsaw Continents / Aflred Wegener -- The Transmutation of the Atom / Ernest Rutherford -- The Double Bases / James Watson -- Has the Earth Already Been Visited? / Carl Sagan -- Looking for the Drift / Walter Sullivan -- Looking for the Big Bang / George Smoot -- "Those Who Would Judge the Book Must Read It" -- I Admit the Moon Has Seas / Johannes Kepler -- The Importance of Isaac Newton / Voltaire -- The Darwinian Hypothesis / Thomas H. Huxley -- ".
catalog description "The Scientific Imagination Examined -- "Every Real Problem Can and Will Be Solved" -- Death in the Laboratory / Isaac Asimov -- The Story of Algol / Arthur S. Eddington -- A New Sense / Ernst Mach -- The New Science of Animal Behavior / John B. Watson -- "Language of the Sort That Would Have Attracted Gilbert and Sullivan" -- Heroic Science / Karl Popper -- Naming the Rocks / John McPhee -- Chemistry Transformed / Herbert Butterfield -- Learning to See Through Another's Eyes / Jean Piaget -- "The Actual Limits of What Is Known" -- The Misuse of Darwin / Stephen Jay Gould -- The Case Against B.F. Skinner / Noam Chomsky -- Idols of the Tribe / Francis Bacon -- The Scientific Imagination in Action -- "Brought Near to That Great Fact: That Mystery of Mysteries" -- First Look Through a Telescope / Galileo Galilei -- Seashells in the Mountains / Leonardo da Vinci -- Birds of the Galapagos / Charles Darwin -- Mating Seasons / George B. Schaller -- "But What Are They?" -- ".
catalog extent "xxii, 485 p. :".
catalog identifier "0716730359".
catalog issued "1997".
catalog issued "1997.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : W. H. Freeman and Company,".
catalog subject "500 21".
catalog subject "Q162 .G22 1997".
catalog subject "Science Popular works.".
catalog subject "Science news.".
catalog subject "Science.".
catalog subject "Technical writing.".
catalog tableOfContents "Galton's Genetics / William Bateson -- Gestalt Psychology / Edmund Blair Bolles -- What Einstein Did / Bertrand Russell -- A Science in Change / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- "Somehow the Wave Had to Exist" -- The End of the Universe / Sir James Janes -- Imagery in Thought / Frederic C. Bartlett -- The Mature Personality / Gordon W. Allport -- The Expanding Universe / Fred Hoyle -- Little Men and Flying Saucers / Loren C. Eiseley -- Atomic Physics and Causal Law / Werner Heisenberg -- The Distinction of Past and Future / Richard Feynman -- The Golden Walls of Edgar Allan Poe / Edward Harrison -- Waves Without a Breeze / Fred Alan Wolf -- Making the Observer Count / Heinz R. Pagels -- Schrodinger's Cats and Wigner's Friends / Paul Davies -- "Every Intellect Which Strives After Generalization Must Feel the Temptation" -- Preface to The Elements of Chemistry / Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type / Alfred Wallace -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "Part One. The scientific imagination examined. -- Ch. 1. "Every real problem can and will be solved" -- Ch. 2. "Language of the sort that would have attracted Gilbert and Sullivan" -- Ch. 3. "The actual limits of what is known" -- Part Two. The scientific imagination in action. -- Ch. 4. "Brought near to that great fact--that mystery of mysteries" -- Ch. 5. "But what are they?" -- Ch. 6. "The demonstration that cost so much effort" -- Ch. 7. "Those who would judge the book must read it" -- Ch. 8. "Somehow the wave had to exist" -- Ch. 9. "Every intellect which strives after generalization must feel the temptation" -- Part Three. Style in the scientific imagination. -- Ch. 10. "It is in some fashion a history."".
catalog tableOfContents "The Conservation of Energy / Hermann von Helmholtz -- Two Theories of Relativity / Albert Einstein -- Style in the Scientific Imagination -- "It Is in Some Fashion a History" -- The Speed of Falling Bodies / Galileo Galilei -- The Persistence of Atoms / Lucretius -- Food Control in Insect Societies / J.B.S. Haldane -- Animals Courting / Julian Huxley -- The Long Snowfall / Rachel Carson -- How Ice Changed the World / Louise B. Young -- Dark Time / Richard Preston -- Carbon / Primo Levi.".
catalog tableOfContents "The Creation of Egypt / Herodotus -- The Movement of Glaciers / Horace Benedict de Saussure -- Molecules / James Clerk Maxwell -- Radio-Activity: A New Property of Matter / Robert Kennedy Duncan -- The Atoms of Activity / I.P. Pavlov -- Classifying the Stars / Annie J. Cannon -- "The Demonstration That Cost So Much Effort" -- Where is the Center of the Universe? / Galileo Galilei -- Doubting the Four Elements / Robert Boyle -- Dispute on the Nature of Light / Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke -- Obtaining Radium / Marie Curie -- Jigsaw Continents / Aflred Wegener -- The Transmutation of the Atom / Ernest Rutherford -- The Double Bases / James Watson -- Has the Earth Already Been Visited? / Carl Sagan -- Looking for the Drift / Walter Sullivan -- Looking for the Big Bang / George Smoot -- "Those Who Would Judge the Book Must Read It" -- I Admit the Moon Has Seas / Johannes Kepler -- The Importance of Isaac Newton / Voltaire -- The Darwinian Hypothesis / Thomas H. Huxley -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "The Scientific Imagination Examined -- "Every Real Problem Can and Will Be Solved" -- Death in the Laboratory / Isaac Asimov -- The Story of Algol / Arthur S. Eddington -- A New Sense / Ernst Mach -- The New Science of Animal Behavior / John B. Watson -- "Language of the Sort That Would Have Attracted Gilbert and Sullivan" -- Heroic Science / Karl Popper -- Naming the Rocks / John McPhee -- Chemistry Transformed / Herbert Butterfield -- Learning to See Through Another's Eyes / Jean Piaget -- "The Actual Limits of What Is Known" -- The Misuse of Darwin / Stephen Jay Gould -- The Case Against B.F. Skinner / Noam Chomsky -- Idols of the Tribe / Francis Bacon -- The Scientific Imagination in Action -- "Brought Near to That Great Fact: That Mystery of Mysteries" -- First Look Through a Telescope / Galileo Galilei -- Seashells in the Mountains / Leonardo da Vinci -- Birds of the Galapagos / Charles Darwin -- Mating Seasons / George B. Schaller -- "But What Are They?" -- ".
catalog title "Galileo's commandment : an anthology of great science writing / edited by Edmund Blair Bolles.".
catalog type "Popular works. fast".
catalog type "text".