EXPERIENCING SCIENCE
Written by Jeremy Bernstein
Published by Burnett Books
in 1979
ISBN: 0233970924
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- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- PHYSICS
- BIOLOGY
EXPERIENCING SCIENCE
Written by Jeremy Bernstein.
Stock no. 629787
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Essays on science and scientists. This book brings together eight essays, some specially written, which focus on a common theme - how does the scientist work? Red cloth, brown title to spine.xi and 275 pages including index. ISBN: 0233970924. Couple of blind stamps to prelims and light browning to endpapers and text block else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Part I: Two Faces of Physics
- Kepler: Harmony of the World
- Rabi: The Modern Age
- Part II: Three Faces of Biology
- Lysenko: Enemies of the People
- A Sorrow and a Pity: Rosalind Franklin and The Double Helix
- Lewis Thoms: Life of a Biology Watcher
- Part III: Fact and Fantasy
- Extrapolators: Arthur C. Clarke
- Calculators: Self-Replications
- Innovators: Godel's Theorem