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Title Seeing further : the story of science, discovery & the genius of the Royal Society / edited & introduced by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor, Jon Turney.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : William Morrow, [2010]
©2010
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1468593~S1
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Description 506 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-489) and index.
Note Originally published: London : Harper Press, 2010.
Summary As editor of "Seeing Further," Bryson has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society, Britain's scientific national academy. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson, among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened endtimes of flu and climate change to our evolving ideas about the nature of time itself, from the hidden mathematics that rule the universe to the cosmological principle that guides "Star Trek."
Subject Royal Society (Great Britain) -- History.
Discoveries in science.
Added Author Bryson, Bill.
Turney, Jon.
ISBN 9780061999765 (hc.)
0061999768 (hc.)
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