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(0)Mary Gribbin
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Race Point Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group
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2017.
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English
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"This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending of light as it goes past the Sun. As the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman said, zIf it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong.y From the discovery...
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English
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The authors of Ice Age "present a well-documented argument that [Newton] owed more to the ideas of others than he admitted" (Kirkus Reviews).
Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society.
Although Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and the father...
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English
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" John Gribbin is the author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat (Bantam) and Deep Simplicity (Random House), among other books. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. Mary Gribbin has written many books with John Gribbin, including The Science of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" (Knopf) and Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (Dutton).
In 1972, when James Lovelock...