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The canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science
Draws on interviews with the world's top scientists to offer a guide to scientific literacy, exploring the fundamental principles of the major scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy.
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- ISBN: 0618242953 : HRD
- Physical Description: 293 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Thinking scientifically -- Probabilities -- Calibration -- Physics -- Chemistry -- Evolutionary biology -- Molecular biology -- Geology -- Astronomy. |
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