Philip Ball: Beautiful Experiments | Buch

Cover: 9780226825823 | Beautiful Experiments | An Illustrated History of Experimental Science

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Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares. This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers have used throughout the ages to study--and to change--the world. Here we see in intricate detail experiments that have, in some way or another, exhibited elegance and beauty: in their design, their conception, and their execution. Celebrated science writer Philip Ball invites readers to marvel at and admire the craftsmanship of scientific instruments and apparatus on display, from the earliest microscopes to the giant particle colliders of today. With Ball as our expert guide, we are encouraged to think carefully about what experiments are, what they mean, and how they are used. Ranging across millennia and geographies, Beautiful Experiments demonstrates why "experiment" remains a contested notion in science, while also exploring how we came to understand the way the world functions, what it contains, and where the pursuit of that understanding has brought us today.

Über den Autor

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water and The Music Instinct. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780226825823
ISBN-10:	0226825825
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ball, Philip
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Maße:	253 x 199 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Philip Ball
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.09.2023
Gewicht:	0,968 kg

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