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Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.Description: viii, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226211695 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509
LOC classification:
  • Q 125 B187c 2014
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 125 B187c 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000121443

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.

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