The Art of Science

Download or read book The Art of Science written by Richard Hamblyn and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is about discovery, a journey towards knowledge. With authors as diverse as Galileo and Lewis Carroll, the extracts featured in this anthology span centuries and continents; they include startling revelations that changed the way we think and tackle more prosaic questions such as why the sea is salty; they consider the natural beauty of the snowflake and the man-made wonder of the first computer. What links them all is a desire to understand, explain and enrich the world, and the ability to communicate this in original, clear and engaging prose.