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20231106174143.0 |
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970219s1997 nyuab 001 0 eng |
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$a 97005997 |
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20
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$a0716730359 |
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39
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$a121562$cTLC |
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$aQ162$b.G22 1997 |
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82
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$a500$221 |
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Title |
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$aGalileo's commandment :$ban anthology of great science writing /$cedited by Edmund Blair Bolles. |
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Imprint |
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$aNew York :$bW.H. Freeman,$cc1997. |
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Phys Descrpt |
300
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$axxiii, 485 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm. |
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Note:General |
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$aIncludes index. |
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Note:General |
500
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$aContents are also listed by date and by science. |
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$gPART ONE: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION EXAMINED: Ch. one: "EVERY REAL PROBLEM CAN AND WILL BE SOLVED" : $tDeath in the laboratory /$rIsaac Asimov -- $gThe$tstory of Algol /$rArthur S. Eddington -- $gA$tnew sense /$rErnst Mach -- $gThe$tnew science of animal behavior /$rJohn B. Watson -- $gCh. two: "LANGUAGE OF THE SORT THAT WOULD HAVE ATTRACTED GILBERT AND SULLIVAN": $tHeroic science /$rKarl Popper -- $tNaming the rocks /$rJohn McPhee -- $tChemistry transformed /$rHerbert Butterfield -- $tLearning to see through another's eyes /$rJean Piaget -- $gCh. three: "THE ACTUAL LIMITS OF WHAT IS KNOWN": The$tmisuse of Darwin /$rStephen Jay Gould -- $gThe$tcase against B.F. Skinner /$rNoam Chomsky -- $tIdols of the tribe /$rFrancis Bacon -- $gPART TWO: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN ACTION: Ch. four: "BROUGHT NEAR TO THAT GREAT FACT, THAT MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES": $tFirst look through a telescope /$rGalileo Galilei -- $tSeashells in the mountains /$rLeonardo da Vinci -- $tBirds of the Galapagos /$rCharles Darwin -- $tMating seasons /$rGeorge B. Schaller -- $gCh. five: "BUT WHAT ARE THEY?": The$tcreation of Egypt /$rHerodotus -- $gThe$tmovement of glaciers /$rHorace Bénédict de Saussure -- $tMolecules /$rJames Clerk Maxwell -- $tRadio-activity: a new property of matter /$rRobert Kennedy Duncan -- $gThe$tatoms of activity /$rI.P. Pavlov -- $tClassifying the stars /$rAnnie J. Cannon -- $gCh. 6. "THE DEMONSTRATION THAT COST SO MUCH EFFORT": $tWhere is the center of the universe? /$rGalileo Galilei -- $tDoubting the four elements /$rRobert Boyle -- $tDispute on the nature of light /$rIsaac Newton,$rRobert Hooke -- $tObtaining radium /$rMarie Curie -- $tJigsaw continents /$rAlfred Wegener -- $gThe$ttransmutation of the atom / $rErnest Rutherford -- $gThe$tdouble bases /$rJames Watson -- $tHas the earth already been visited? /$rCarl Sagan -- $tLooking for the drift /$rWalter Sullivan -- $tLooking for the Big Bang /$rGeorge Smoot -- $gCh. 7. "THOSE WHO WOULD JUDGE THE BOOK MUST READ IT": $tI admit the moon has seas /$rJohannes Kepler -- $gThe$timportance of Isaac Newton /$rVoltaire -- $gThe$tDarwinian hypothesis /$rThomas H. Huxley -- $tGalton's genetics /$rWilliam Bateson -- $tGestalt psychology /$rEdmund Blair Bolles -- $tWhat Einstein did / $rBertrand Russell -- $gA$tscience in change /$rJ. Robert Oppenheimer -- $gCh. 8. "SOMEHOW THE WAVE HAD TO EXIST": The$tend of the universe /$gSir $rJames Jeans -- $tImagery in thought /$rFrederic C. Bartlett -- $gThe$tmature personality /$rGordon W. Allport -- $gThe$texpanding universe /$rFred Hoyle -- $tLittle men and flying saucers /$rLoren C. Eiseley -- $tAtomic physics and causal law /$rWerner Heisenberg -- $gThe$tdistinction of past and future /$rRichard Feynman -- $gThe$tgolden walls of Edgar Allan Poe /$rEdward Harrison -- $tWaves without a breeze /$rFred Alan Wolf -- $tMaking the observer count /$rHeinz R. Pagels -- $tSchrödinger's cats and Wigner's friends /$rPaul Davies -- $gCh. 9. "EVERY INTELLECT WHICH STRIVES AFTER GENERALIZATION MUST FEEL THE TEMPTATION": $tPreface to The Elements of chemistry /$rAntoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- $tOn the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type /$rAlfred Wallace -- $gThe$tconservation of energy /$rHermann von Helmholtz -- $tTwo theories of relativity /$rAlbert Einstein -- $gPART THREE: STYLE IN THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION: Ch. 10: "IT IS IN SOME FASHION A HISTORY": The$tspeed of falling bodies /$rGalileo Galilei -- $gThe$tpersistence of atoms /$rLucretius -- $tFood control in insect societies /$rJ.B.S. Haldane -- $tAnimals courting /$rJulian Huxley -- $gThe$tlong snowfall /$rRachel Carson -- $tHow ice changed the world /$rLouise B. Young -- $tDark time /$rRichard Preston -- $tCarbon /$rPrimo Levi. |
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Abstract |
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$a"The aim behind this collection is to show readers that science writing can be great writing in precisely the same sense as other genres are great: it has something important to say; it says it by presenting readers with unique imaginations; and readers in turn are inspired to think in ways that, by themselves, they never could.... To make my case, I have focused on straight science writing, not philosophical writing about science.... This book presents writing that makes a contribution to science. [The title comes from] Bertolt Brecht's play, The Life of Galileo, [in which] Galileo (the character) says, 'Science knows only one commandment: contribute to science.'" -- Author's introduction |
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$aScience$vPopular works. |
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650
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$aScience. |
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$aScience news. |
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650
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$aTechnical writing. |
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$aPrimary sources.$2lcgft |
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AE:Pers Name |
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$aBolles, Edmund Blair,$d1942- |
