The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
ISBN: 9781400041015 | 1400041015
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Pub. Date: 4/8/2008
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From the acclaimed "New York Times" science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on 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 light, by electricity, and by the beating of the hearts they laid bare on the dissecting table. We see Galileo singing to mark time as he measures the pull of g... MORE
| Prologue | |
| 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 Pa... MORE | |
| Robert Millikan:In the Borderland | |
| Epilogue:The Eleventh Most Beautiful Experiment | |
| Notes and Bibliography | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
George Johnson writes regularly about science for The New York Times. He has also written for Scientific American, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Slate, and Wired, and his work has been included in The Best American Science Writing. He has received awards from PEN and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and his books were twice finalists for the Rhone-Poulenc Prize. He is a co-director of the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop, and he lives in Santa Fe.
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