The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - George Johnson

A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most groundbreaking and beautiful
experiments in scientific history.

With the attention to detail of a historian
and the storytelling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George
Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the
world seemed filled with mysterious forces and scientists were in awe of light, electricity,
and the human body. Here, we see Galileo staring down gravity, Newton breaking apart
light, and Pavlov studying his now famous dogs. This is science in its most creative,
hands-on form, when ingenuity of the mind is the most useful tool in the lab and
the rewards of a well-considered experiment are on exquisite display.