The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

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Author: George Johnson

Number of Pages: 208

From the universally praised New York Times science writer George Johnson (“He provides some of the best science writing I have come across in 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 MoveCh. 2 – William Harvey- Mysteries of the HeartCh. 3 – Isaac Newton- What a Colour IsCh. 4 – Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier- The Farmer’s DaughterCh. 5 – Luigi Galvini- Animal ElectricityCh. 6 – Michel Faraday- Something Deeply HiddenCh. 7 – James Joule- How the World WorksCh. 8 – A. Michelson- Lost in SpaceCh. 9 – Ivan Pavlov- Measuring the ImmeasurableCh. 10 – Robert Millikan- In the BorderlandThe diligence of all these scientists was rewarded- in an instant, confusion was swept aside, and something new about nature leapt into view.