The art of science
Subtitle: a natural history of ideas
By: Richard Hamblyn
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780330490757
Subjects: Science; Popular works
Description: The Art of Science is not necessarily a book about great scientific theories, complicated equations, or grand old men (or women) in their laboratories; instead, it's about the places we draw our inspiration from; it's about daily routines and sudden flashes of insight; about dedication, and - sometimes - desperation; and the small moments, questions, quests, clashes, doubts and delights that make us human. From Galileo to Lewis Carroll, from Humphry Davy to Charles Darwin, from Marie Curie to Stephen Jay Gould, from rust to snowflakes, from the first use of the word "scientist" to the first computer, from why the sea is salty to Newtonian physics for women, The Art of Science is a book about people, rather than scientists per se, and as such, it's a book about politics, passion and poetry. Above all, it's a book about the good that science can - and does - do.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-471) and index.