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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
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Author
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George Johnson.
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Publisher
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Knopf/BOMC
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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7.75
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5.25
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0.75
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ISBN
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9781400041015
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Pages/Publication Date
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192/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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21289
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Description
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Twice nominated for the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books, New York Times science writer George Johnson here looks in on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science, and at the minds who posed them. Here are Galileo singing to mark time as he measures the pull of gravity, and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his eye to learn how light causes vibrations in the retina. Luigi Galvani sparks electrical currents in frog legs, wondering at the nature of muscle fibers, and Ivan Pavlov makes dogs salivate at ascending chord progressions. Lavoisier, Faraday, and Joule are also here, and the illustrations are from the scientists' own books.
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