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Philip Ball |
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything |
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2012 |
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Title | Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything |
Author(s) | Philip Ball |
Publication | London, Bodley Head, 2012. |
Description | viii, 465p. |
Abstract Note | There was a time when curiosity was condemned. To be curious was to delve into matters that didn't concern you - after all, the original sin stemmed from a desire for forbidden knowledge. Through curiosity our innocence was lost.
Yet this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate the first instants of creation in particle accelerators, out of pure desire to know. There seems now to be no question too vast or too trivial to be ruled out of bounds: Why can fleas jump so high? What is gravity? What shape are clouds? Today curiosity is no longer reviled, but celebrated. |
ISBN,Price | 9781847921727 : Rs. 999.00(HB) |
Classification | 501(089.3)
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Keyword(s) | 1. POPULAR SCIENCE
2. SCIENCE
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