Curiosity: how science became interested in everything

Looking closely at the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Ball vividly brings to life the age when modern science began, a time that spans the lives of Galileo and Isaac Newton. In this entertaining and illuminating account of the rise of science as we know it, Ball tells of scientists both leg...

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Main Author: Ball, Philip 1962- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago [u.a.] University of Chicago Press 2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:[Rezension von: Ball, Philip, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything] (2014) (Burns, William E.)
Further subjects:B Curiosity
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