Mosley, Michael, - Lynch, John.

The story of science

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DKK 195,00

The history of science is often told as a series of great breakthrougs, revolutions and moments of genius from scientific heroes. But in reality there is always a before, an after and historical context. For science does not happen In a vacuum. – So as the story unfolds we will meet the characters who worked witin the same pressures as the people who lived alongside them. – Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution by natural selection over a numer of years in the mid 1800s. Meanwhile, another man, Alfred Russel Wallace, quite independently developed a theory that was in may remarkably similar. – The story of Galileos use of the telecope to study the heaves was largely driven by money. He was at the time a middle-aged professor of mathematics with limited prospects and badly needed to improve his status of finances. News of the invention of the telescope must have seemed almost heaven sent. He was, of course, utterly unaware of how his brilliant use of the device would come to change the science of Cosmos.

BBC / Mitchell Beazley, 2010. 2010.

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INDHOLD: Uncommon sense. – Cosmos and what’s out there? – The court of the emperor. – The irascible Dane Tycho Brahe. – Spherical harmony. – Circles witin circles. – The poor mathematician. – The Polish canon. – Mysteries of the universe. – Kepler’s geometric rules. – Meeting of minds. – 95 theses. – Kepler’s laws. – Dutch glasses. – Perfect vision. – The trial. – Father of science. – Latitude and longitude. – The bet. – Gravity. – Newton’laws of motion. – Follow the money. – Big bang. – Einstein. – Uncertainty. – Matter. What is the world made of? – Atoms. – Inside the atom. – The laughing philosopher. – Alchemy. – The 17th century. – Making phospoherus. – The chemical revolution. – How to make a canon. – Prietley’s “Airss”. – The dinner. – Balloon wars , gas wars. – Splitting matter. – The Hindenburg disaster. – The revolution. – The romantic chemist. – The elements and the periodic table. – How malaria enters the blood. – Things of thought. – Mysterious rays. – The atom. – Fly in a cathedral. – Splitting the atom. – Semiconductors. – Life. How did we get here? – Practical plants. – Collectors. – Classification. – Systema natura. – How fossil form. – Strata Smith. – Building skeletons. – Extinction. – How old? – Hot rocks. – Deep time. – Vestiges of progress. – Long necks. – Continental jigsaw. – Cold war clues. – Water world. – Dutch wind. – Perpetual motion. – The lunar men. – Electrickery. – Steam. – Watt’s invention. – The first steam car. – Patent power. – Age of steam. – Victorian efficiency. – Schocking fish. – Information flow. – Power struggle and electricity. – Radioactive magic. – Body. What is the secret of life? – The anatomists. – Chinese medicine. – Dathly dissections. – The body is a machine. – Islamic medicine. – The experimentalists. – Birth of chemistry. – Hormone heaven. – The cell. – DNA makes protein. – Animalcules. – Electricity in the body. – Dath by doctor. – Inside the cell. – DNA comes of age. – What is DNA? – The secret of life. – Mutation. – Mind. Who we are. – Think like an Egyptian. – The brain comes to life. – Probing the dead and the living. – Trepanning and earliest brain surgery. – Into the dark. – Witches, ergot and LSD. – A new hope. – The brain revealed. – Tourette syndrome. – What lies beneath. – Bits and pieces. – Psychosurgery. – Pavlov’s dogs. – And beyond. – Further reading. – Index. – – Indbundet og med omslag. – Illustreret. – 288 sider. – Pænt eksemplar.