The ten most beautiful experiments / George Johnson.
Pubblicazione:
London : The Bodley head, 2008.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 192 p. : ill., ritr. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Prologue. 1. Galileo: the way things really move 2. William Harvey: mysteries of the heart 3. Isaac Newton: what a color is 4. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier: the farmer's daughter 5. Luigi Galvani: animal electricity 6. Michael Faraday: something deeply hidden 7. James Joule: how the world works 8. A. A. Michelson: lost in space 9. Ivan Pavlov: measuring the immeasurable 10. Robert Millikan: in the borderland. Afterword: The eleventh most beautiful experiment. Notes and bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index
