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Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society电子书

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作       者:Bill Bryson

出  版  社:HarperPress

出版时间:2010-04-15

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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present. On a damp weeknight in November, 350 years ago, a dozen or so men gathered at Gresham College in London. A twenty-eight year old – and not widely famous – Christopher Wren was giving a lecture on astronomy. As his audience listened to him speak, they decided that it would be a good idea to create a Society to promote the accumulation of useful knowledge. With that, the Royal Society was born. Since its birth, the Royal Society has pioneered scientific exploration and discovery. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Joseph Banks, Humphry Davy, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Locke, Alexander Fleming – all were fellows. Bill Bryson’s favourite fellow was Reverend Thomas Bayes, a brilliant mathematician who devised Bayes’ theorem. Its complexity meant that it had little practical use in Bayes’ own lifetime, but today his theorem is used for weather forecasting, astrophysics and stock market analysis. A milestone in mathematical history, it only exists because the Royal Society decided to preserve it – just in case. The Royal Society continues to do today what it set out to do all those years ago. Its members have split the atom, discovered the double helix, the electron, the computer and the World Wide Web. Truly international in its outlook, it has created modern science. ‘Seeing Further’ celebrates its momentous history and achievements, bringing together the very best of science writing. Filled with illustrations of treasures from the Society’s archives, this is a unique, ground-breaking and beautiful volume, and a suitable reflection of the immense achievements of science.
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Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Bill Bryson Introduction

1 James Gleick: At The Beginning: More Things in Heaven and Earth

2 Margaret At wood: Of the Madness of Mad Scientists: Jonathan Swift's Grand Academy

3 Margaret Wertheim: Lost in Space: The Spiritual Crisis of Newtonian Cosmology

4 Neal Stephenson: Atoms of Cognition: Metaphysics in The Royal Society, 1715-2010

5 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: What's in a Name? Rivalries and the Birth of Modern Science

6 Simon Schaffer: Charged Atmospheres: Promethean Science and the Royal Society

7 Richard Holmes: A New Age of Flight: Joseph Banks Goes Ballooning

8 Richard Fortey: Archives of Life: Science and Collections

9 Richard Dawkins: Darwin's Five Bridges: The Way to Natural Selection

10 Henry Petroski: Images of Progress: Conferences of Engineers

11 Georgina Ferry: X-ray Visions: Structural Biologists and Social Action in the Twentieth Century

12 Steve Jones: Ten Thousand Wedges: Biodiversity, Natural Selection and Random Change

13 Philip Ball: Making Stuff: From Bacon to Bakelite

14 Paul Davies: Just Typical: Our Changing Place in the Universe

15 Ian Stewart: Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Mathematics That Rules Our World

16 John D. Barrow: Simple Really: From Simplicity to Complexity - and Back Again

17 Oliver Morton: Globe and Sphere, Cycles and Flows: How to See the World

18 Maggie Gee: Beyond Ending: Looking into the Void

19 Stephen H. Schneider: Confidence, Consensus and the Uncertainty Cops: Tackling Risk Management in Climate Change

20 Gregory Benford: Time: The Winged Chariot

21 Martin Rees: Conclusion: Looking Fifty Years Ahead

Picture Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

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