num_pages: 560
description: Plotting the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory, John Carey chooses accounts by scientists themselves that are both elegant and arrestingly written. The classic science-writers are Darwin, Huxley, Fabre. So, too, are the luminaries of the late-twentieth-century genre of popular science-writing which, Carey argues, challenges contemporary poetry and fiction in its imaginative power.
language: English
title: Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals
titlecomplete: Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals
genres: Science
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Harvard University Press