Seeing further
Subtitle: the story of science, discovery, and the genius of the Royal Society
By: edited & introduced by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor, Jon Turney
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780061999772
Subjects: Royal Society (Great Britain); Discoveries in science; History
Notes: "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2010 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers" -- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-489) and index.
Table of contents: title: At the beginning : more things in heaven and earth  -- James Gleick; title: Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's grand academy  -- Margaret Atwood; title: Lost in space : the spiritual crisis of Newtonian cosmology  -- Margaret Wertheim; title: Atoms of cognition : metaphysics in the Royal Society  -- Neal Stephenson; title: What's in a name? : Rivalries and the birth of modern science  -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein; title: Charged atmospheres : promethean science and the Royal Society  -- Simon Schaffer; title: A new age of flight : Joseph Banks goes ballooning  -- Richard Holmes; title: Archives of life : science and collections  -- Richard Fortey; title: Darwin's five bridges : the way to natural selection  -- Richard Dawkins; title: Images of progress : conferences of engineers  -- Henry Petroski; title: X-ray visions : structural biologists and social action in the twentieth century  -- Georgina Ferry; title: Ten thousand wedges : biodiversity, natural selection and random change  -- Steve Jones; title: Making stuff : From Bacon to bakelite  -- Philip Ball; title: Just typical : our changing place in the universe  -- Paul Davies; title: Behind the scenes : the hidden mathematics that rules our world  -- Ian Stewart; title: Simple, really : from simplicity to complexity--and back again  -- John D. Barrow; title: Globe and sphere, cycles and flows : how to see the world  -- Oliver Morton; title: Beyond ending : looking into the void  -- Maggie Gee; title: Confidence, consensus and the uncertainty cops : tackling risk management in climate change  -- Stephen H. Schneider; title: Time : the winged chariot  -- Gregory Benford; title: Conclusion: Looking fifty years ahead -- Martin Rees.