Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments That Changed Our View of the World
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Book Overview
Vivid, readable, and accurate, these tales of landmark scientific inquiries include Aristotle's work on the embryology of the chick, Galileo's discovery of the law of descent, Newton's experiment on... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195204360
ISBN13:9780195204360
Release Date:September 1983
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:9.5" x 0.8" x 7.3"
Customer Reviews
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Enriching experience
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
The introduction provides an interesting insight on the role of experiments in sientific work. The author used the experiment's strory to demonstrate its rationale. Well written; Enriching reading experience.
From a student of science
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book is an overview of "Great Scientific Experiments" that changed the course of science. It is a good book, which outlines the purpose of each experiment (giving 2 experiments for each purpose). It is a book for those who want to pursue scholarly investigations on the science of experimenting. For the students, it will be a motivating experience, although they might not be able to understand the details of each experiment. As a teacher I'll recommend that this book be included as an optional reading book in upper high school/college, grade XI, XII, and onward.
Experiments whose results changed worldviews
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Great Scientific Experiments showcases twenty scientific experiments whose results changed worldviews provide an excellent survey of scientific progress. From Aristotle's work on the embroyology of the chick to Beaumont's discoveries about digestion, each experiment's results are analyzed with an eye to how it changed future experimental courses and influenced other discoveries.
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