The Discoveries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Discoveries write by Alan Lightman. This book was released on 2010-10-22. The Discoveries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extraordinarily accessible, illuminating chronicle of the great moments of scientific discovery in the 20th century, and an exploration into the minds of the remarkable men and women behind them. We know and read the literary masterpieces; how many of us have had the opportunity not only to read but understand the masterpieces of science that describe the very moment of discovery? The last century has seen an explosion of creativity and insight that led to breakthroughs in every field of science: from the theory of relativity to the first quantum model of the atom to the mapping of the structure of DNA, these discoveries profoundly changed how we understand the world and our place in it. Alan Lightman tells the stories of two dozen breakthroughs made by such brilliant scientists as Einstein, Bohr, McClintock and Pauling, among others, drawing on his unique background as a scientist and novelist to reveal the process of scientific discovery at its greatest. He outlines the intellectual and emotional landscape of each discovery, portrays the personalities and human drama of the scientists involved, and explains the significance and impact of the work. Finally, he gives an unprecedented and exhilarating guided tour through each of the original papers.
Literature & Science Breakthroughs
Literature & Science Breakthroughs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature & Science Breakthroughs write by Jo-Anne Lake. This book was released on 2000. Literature & Science Breakthroughs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Literature & Science Breakthroughs offers strategies for using fiction and non-fiction...to bring all aspects of science to life for children." -- BACK COVER.
The New York Times Book of Science
The New York Times Book of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Book of Science write by David Corcoran. This book was released on 2015-10-06. The New York Times Book of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Take a journey through scientific history via 125 outstanding articles from the New York Times archives. For more than 150 years, The New York Times has been in the forefront of science news reporting. These 125 articles from its archives are the very best, covering more than a century of scientific breakthroughs, setbacks, and mysteries. The varied topics range from chemistry to the cosmos, biology to ecology, genetics to artificial intelligence—all curated by the former editor of Science Times, David Corcoran. Big, informative, and wide-ranging, this journey through the scientific stories of our times is a must-have for all science enthusiasts. Contributors include: Lawrence K. Altman, MD * Natalie Angier * William J. Broad * Gina Kolata * William L. Laurence * Dennis Overbye * Walter Sullivan * John Noble Wilford * and more
365 Surprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries
365 Surprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 365 Surprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries write by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. This book was released on 1994. 365 Surprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a lively overview of recent breakthroughs and discoveries in science, as well as a review of some basic principles, in the form of intriguing trivia questions and answers. Covering a broad range of subjects, the book includes the disciplines of computer science, technology, medicine and health, Earth science, chemistry, astronomy, physics and mathematics. Each entry is accompanied by a short list of recommended reading on two levels: one in popular and accessible literature and the other in readily available scientific journals.
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England write by Claire Preston. This book was released on 2015-12-17. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The writing of science in the period 1580-1700 is artfully, diffidently, carelessly, boldly, and above all self-consciously literary. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing — its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. The experimental and social practices of science are examined through literary representations of the laboratory, of collaborative retirement, of virtual, epistolary conversation, and of an imagined paradise of investigative fellowship and learning. Claire Preston argues that the rhetorical, generic, and formal qualities of scientific writing are also the intellectual processes of early-modern science itself. How was science to be written in this period? That question, which piqued natural philosophers who were searching for apt conventions of scientific language and report, was initially resolved by the humanist rhetorical and generic skills in which they were already highly trained. At the same time non-scientific writers, enthralled by the developments of science, were quick to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medical practices. Practising scientists and inspired laymen or quasi-scientists produced new, adjusted, or hybrid literary forms, often collapsing the distinction between the factual and the imaginative, between the rhetorically ornate and the plain. Early-modern science and its literary vehicles are frequently indistinguishable, scientific practice and scientific expression mutually involved. Among the major writers discussed are Montaigne, Bacon, Donne, Browne, Lovelace, Boyle, Sprat, Oldenburg, Evelyn, Cowley, and Dryden.
