Seeing further : the story of science & the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society have created whole new branches of science, split the atom, discovered hydrogen, the double helix and the elecron. They have invented the World Wide Web, developed profound theories on evolution, gravity and motion, and furthered our understanding of everything from stock market analysis and astrophysics to electricity and biodiversity. They have tested the limits of knowledge itself
Aufsatzsammlung
490 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780007302567, 9780007302574, 0007302568, 0007302576
440112009
At the beginning : more things in heaven and earth / James Gleck
Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's grand academy / Margaret Atwood
Lost in space : the spiritual crisis of Newtonian cosmology / Margaret Wertheim
Atoms of cognition : metaphysics in the Royal Society, 1715-2010 / Neal Stephenson
What's in a name? : rivalries and the birth of modern science / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Charged atmospheres : Promethean science and the Royal Society / Simon Schaffer
A new age of flight : Joseph Banks goes ballooning / Richard Holmes
Archives of life : science and collections / Richard Fortey
Darwin's five bridges : the way to natural selection / Richard Dawkins
Images of progress : conferences of engineers / Henry Petroski
X-ray visions : structural biologists and social action in the twentieth century / Georgina Ferry
Ten thousand wedges : biodiversity, natural selection, and random change / Steve Jones
Making stuff : from Bacon to Bakelite / Philip Ball
Just typical : our changing place in the universe / Paul Davies
Behind the scenes : the hidden mathematics that rules our world / Ian Stewart
Simple, really : from simplicity to complexity
and back again / John D. Barrow
Globe and sphere, cycles and flows : how to see the world / Oliver Morton
Beyond ending : looking into the void / Maggie Gee
Confidence, consensus, and the uncertainty cops : tackling risk management in climate change / Stephen H. Schneider
Time : the winged chariot / Gregory Benford
Conclusion : looking fifty years ahead / Martin Ress
Edited & introduced by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor, Jon Turney.