The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0547053460 , 0618242953 | ISBN-13: 9780547053462 , 9780618242955 | 293 pages | EPUB | 0,33 MB
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0547053460 , 0618242953 | ISBN-13: 9780547053462 , 9780618242955 | 293 pages | EPUB | 0,33 MB
In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angier distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing the simple question “What do you wish everyone knew about your field?”
The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyride through the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world around us and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angier proves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guide in her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and the basic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Even science-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "to make the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffable affable."