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000437039 24500 $$aSeeing further :$$bthe story of science, discovery, and the genius of the Royal Society /$$cedited & introduced by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor, Jon Turney.
000437039 250__ $$a1st U.S. ed.
000437039 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bWilliam Morrow,$$cc2010.
000437039 300__ $$a506 p. :$$bill. (some col.) ;$$c24 cm.
000437039 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000437039 50500 $$tAt the beginning : more things in heaven and earth /$$rJames Gleick --$$tOf the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's grand academy /$$rMargaret Atwood --$$tLost in space : the spiritual crisis of Newtonian cosmology /$$rMargaret Wertheim --$$tAtoms of cognition : metaphysics in the Royal Society /$$rNeal Stephenson --$$tWhat's in a name? : Rivalries and the birth of modern science /$$rRebecca Newberger Goldstein --$$tCharged atmospheres : promethean science and the Royal Society /$$rSimon Schaffer --$$tA new age of flight : Joseph Banks goes ballooning /$$rRichard Holmes --$$tArchives of life : science and collections /$$rRichard Fortey --$$tDarwin's five bridges : the way to natural selection /$$rRichard Dawkins --$$tImages of progress : conferences of engineers /$$rHenry Petroski --$$tX-ray visions : structural biologists and social action in the twentieth century /$$rGeorgina Ferry --$$tTen thousand wedges : biodiversity, natural selection and random change /$$rSteve Jones --$$tMaking stuff : From Bacon to bakelite /$$rPhilip Ball --$$tJust typical : our changing place in the universe /$$rPaul Davies --$$tBehind the scenes : the hidden mathematics that rules our world /$$rIan Stewart --$$tSimple, really : from simplicity to complexity--and back again /$$rJohn D. Barrow --$$tGlobe and sphere, cycles and flows : how to see the world /$$rOliver Morton --$$tBeyond ending : looking into the void /$$rMaggie Gee --$$tConfidence, consensus and the uncertainty cops : tackling risk management in climate change /$$rStephen H. Schneider --$$tTime : the winged chariot /$$rGregory Benford --$$tConclusion: Looking fifty years ahead /$$rMartin Rees.
000437039 520__ $$aAs editor of "Seeing Further," Bryson has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society, Britain's scientific national academy.  The contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson, among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened endtimes of flu and climate change to our evolving ideas about the nature of time itself, from the hidden mathematics that rule the universe to the cosmological principle that guides "Star Trek."
000437039 61020 $$aRoyal Society (Great Britain)$$xHistory.
000437039 650_0 $$aDiscoveries in science.
000437039 7001_ $$aBryson, Bill.
000437039 7001_ $$aTurney, Jon.
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