The ten most beautiful experiments
By: by George Johnson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Science -- Experiments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Galileo : the way things really move; title: William Harvey : mysteries of the heart; title: Isaac Newton : what a color is; title: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier : the farmer's daughter; title: Luigi Galvani : animal electricity; title: Michael Faraday : something deeply hidden; title: James Joule : how the world works; title: A.A. Michelson : lost in space; title: Ivan Pavlov : measuring the immeasurable; title: Robert Millikan : in the borderland; title: Epilogue : the eleventh most beautiful experiment.