Eyewitness to Science : Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals
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In Eyewitness to Science John Carey has assembled more than 100 pieces of science writing into a kaleidoscopic tour of the field. As befits Carey's status as professor of English at Oxford University, some of the most interesting juxtapositions are between great scientists and great writers. For instance, J. B. Lamarck on "How the Giraffe Got Its Neck" is grouped with George Bernard Shaw's preface to Back to Methuselah and with a poem by U.S. poet laureate Richard Wilbur. Some of the more literary excerpts include John Updike on entropy, George Orwell on toads, and John Steinbeck on sea cucumbers.
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Stephen Jay Gould : The best practical antidote against the myths that scientists cannot write and that science itself it too difficult for non professionals to comprehend. This wonderfully diverse set of pieces, from Leonardo to now, from the idiosyncratically humorous to the sparingly didactic, contains the best of scientific writing for the past half-millennium.
Eyewitness to Science : Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals
Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals,John Carey,Harvard University Press,067428755X,General,History,Popular works,Science,Science (General),Science/Mathematics,History of science,Science / General
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