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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science

English

By (author): Philip Ball

A New Scientist Best Book of 2023

Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares.

 
This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers have used throughout the ages to studyand to changethe world. Here we see in intricate detail experiments that have, in some way or another, exhibited elegance and beauty: in their design, their conception, and their execution. Celebrated science writer Philip Ball invites readers to marvel at and admire the craftsmanship of scientific instruments and apparatus on display, from the earliest microscopes to the giant particle colliders of today. With Ball as our expert guide, we are encouraged to think carefully about what experiments are, what they mean, and how they are used. Ranging across millennia and geographies, Beautiful Experiments demonstrates why experiment remains a contested notion in science, while also exploring how we came to understand the way the world functions, what it contains, and where the pursuit of that understanding has brought us today. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 966g
  • Dimensions: 191 x 248mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226825823

About Philip Ball

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster whose many books on the interactions of the sciences the arts and the wider culture include Bright Earth Curiosity Patterns in Nature How to Grow a Human The Modern Myths The Elements and most recently The Book of Minds all also published by the University of Chicago Press. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Societys Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history philosophy or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol and he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.

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