The ten most beautiful experiments /

The ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science--moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply. Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces, when scientists were dazzled by l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, George, 1952 January 20-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Galileo : the way things really move
  • William Harvey : mysteries of the heart
  • Isaac Newton : what a color is
  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier : the farmer's daughter
  • Luigi Galvani : animal electricity
  • Michael Faraday : something deeply hidden
  • James Joule : how the world works
  • A.A. Michelson : lost in space
  • Ivan Pavlov : measuring the immeasurable
  • Robert Millikan : in the borderland
  • Epilogue : the eleventh most beautiful experiment.