Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.

Author: Ball, Philip, 1962- author.

ImprintChicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Descriptionviii, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Note:Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.

Note:Old questions -- The academies of secrets -- The theatre of curiosity -- The hunt of Pan -- Professors of everything -- More things in Heaven and Earth -- Cosmic disharmonies -- The first men in the moon -- Nature free and bound -- On the head of a pin -- The light of nature -- Chasing elephants -- Professional virtuosi, or curiosity served cold.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-453) and index.

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