Curiosity : how science became interested in everything /
Ball, Philip, 1962-
Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. - viii, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.
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.
9780226211695 (pbk.)
2012048631
Science--History--Popular works.
Curiosity.
Ciencia--Historia.
Curiosidad.
Q 125 / B187c 2014
509
Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. - viii, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.
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.
9780226211695 (pbk.)
2012048631
Science--History--Popular works.
Curiosity.
Ciencia--Historia.
Curiosidad.
Q 125 / B187c 2014
509