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Curiosity : how science became interested in everything
- Title
- Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.
- Author
- Ball, Philip, 1962-
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- ©2012
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Details
- Description
- viii, 465 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2012.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.
- Contents
- Old questions -- The academies of secrets -- The theatre of curiosity -- The hunt of Pan -- Professors of everything -- More things in heaven and earth -- Cosmic disharmonies -- The first men in the moon -- Nature free and bound -- On the head of a pin -- The light of nature -- Chasing elephants -- Professional virtuosi, or, Curiosity served cold.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-2742
- ISBN
- 9780226045795 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 022604579X (cloth : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- 2012048631
- OCLC
- 818318026
- Author
- Ball, Philip, 1962- author.
- Title
- Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.
- Other Editions:
- Ball, Philip, 1962- Curiosity. London : Bodley Head, 2012. 9781847921727 (OCoLC)772973267.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-2742