From the universally praisedNew York Timesscience writer George Johnson ("He provides some ofthe best science writing I have come acrossin a long time"-Paul Davies), an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science-moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.
Ch.1 -Galileo: The Way Things Really Move
Ch.2 -William Harvey: Mysteries of the Heart
Ch.3 -Isaac Newton: What a Colour Is
Ch.4 -Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier: The Farmer's Daughter
Ch.5 -Luigi Galvini: Animal Electricity
Ch.6 -Michel Faraday: Something Deeply Hidden
Ch.7 -James Joule: How the World Works
Ch.8 -A. Michelson: Lost in Space
Ch.9 -Ivan Pavlov: Measuring the Immeasurable
Ch.10 -Robert Millikan: In the Borderland
The diligence of all these scientists was rewarded: in an instant, confusion was swept aside, and something new about nature leapt into view.
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