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| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226825823 |
| ISBN 10 | 226825825 |
| Book Description | 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 ingenu |
| About the Author | Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water and The Music Instinct. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society's 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. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Philip Ball |
| Publication Date | 2023-09-15 |
| Number of Pages | 240 pages |
Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
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