Curiosity.pdf

(25639 KB) Pobierz
Curiosity
b y t h e s a m e aut h o r
Designing the Molecular World:
Chemistry at the Frontier
Made to Measure:
New Materials for the 21st Century
H
2
O:
A Biography of Water
The Self-made Tapestry:
Pattern Formation in Nature
Bright Earth:
The Invention of Colour
Stories of the Invisible:
A Guided Tour of Molecules
The Ingredients:
A Guided Tour of the Elements
Critical Mass:
How One Things Leads to Another
Elegant Solutions:
Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
The Devil’s Doctor:
Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
Nature’s Patterns:
A Tapestry in Three Parts
Universe of Stone:
Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind
The Sun and Moon Corrupted
The Music Instinct:
How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It
Unnatural:
The Heretical Idea of Making People
Curiosity
how science became
interested in everything
Philip Ball
T HE UNIvERSIT y OF CH ICAGO P RESS
C HI CAGO & LON DON
Philip Ball
worked for over twenty years as an editor for
Nature,
writes
regularly in the scientific and popular media, and has authored many
books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider
culture, including
Critical Mass, The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern
Formation in Nature, H
2
O: A Biography of Water, Bright
Earth, Universe of Stone,
and
The Music Instinct.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2012 by Philip Ball
All rights reserved. Published 2013.
Printed in the United States of America
22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13
12345
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04579-5 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04582-5 (e-book)
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226045825.001.0001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ball, Philip, 1962– author.
Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.
pages cm
Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-226-04579-5 (cloth : alkaline paper) — ISBN 978-0-226-04582-5
(e-book) 1. Science—History—Popular works. 2. Curiosity. I. Title.
Q125.B297 2013
509—dc23
2012048631
This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992
(Permanence of Paper).

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika:

Zgłoś jeśli naruszono regulamin