Galileo's Commandment 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing [Paperback]

Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science, yet erudite enough for the scientifically initiated to enjoy.

Introduction

Part One
The Scientific Imagination Examined

Chapter One
Every Real Problem Can and Will Be Solved

Isaac Asimov: Death in the Laboratory (1965)
Arthur S. Eddington: The Story of Algol (1927)
Ernst Mach: A New Sense (1897)
John B. Watson: The New Science of Animal Behavior (1909)

Chapter Two
Language of the Sort That Would Have Attracted Gilbert and Sullivan

Karl Popper: Heroic Science (1974)
John McPhee: Naming the Rocks (1981)
Herbert Butterfield: Chemistry Transformed (1949)
Jean Piaget: Learning to See Through Another's Jean Piaget: Learning to See Through Another's Eyes (1928)

Chapter Three
The Actual Limits of What Is Known

Stephen Jay Gould: The Misuse of Darwin (1981)
Noam Chomsky: The Case Against B. F. Skinner (1971)
Francis Bacon: Idols of the Tribe (1620)

Part Two
The Scientific Imagination in Action

Chapter Four
Brought Near to That Great Fact-That Mystery of Mysteries

Galileo Galilei: First Look Through a Telescope (1610)
Leonardo da Vinci: Seashells in the Mountains (1480-1515)
Charles Darwin: Birds of the Galapagos (1839)
George B. Schaller: Mating Seasons (1980)

p0Chapter Five
But What Are They?

Herodotus: The Creation of Egypt (444 B.C.)
Horace B?n?dict de Saussure: The Movement of Glaciers (1796)
James Clerk Maxwell: Molecules (1873)
Robert Kennedy Duncan: Radio-Activity: A New Property of Matter (1902)
I. P. Pavlov: The Atoms of Activity (1924)
Annie J. Cannon: Classifying the Stars (1926)

Chapter Six
The Demonstration That Cost So Much Effort

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