Experiencing Science

by Jeremy Bernstein

ISBN: 0465021859
ISBN-13: 9780465021857
Format: Hardcover

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Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published date: 1978

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Profiles of famous scientists, from the great sixteenth-century Kepler to the discoverers of the Double Helix, are joined by essays and short fictions in a celebration of the contributions of the scientific enterprise to human experience.

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