The canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science /
Award-winning science journalist Angier takes us on a "guided twirligig through the scientific canon." She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists, and her own work as a reporter for the New York Times, to create an entertaining guide to scientific literacy-...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Company,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Thinking scientifically
- Probabilities
- Calibration
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Evolutionary biology
- Molecular biology
- Geology
- Astronomy.