Exploring the Universe
Essays on Science and Technology
Series: Essays on Science and Technology from the Royal Institution;
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 2 October 1997
- ISBN 9780198500858
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 234x156x19 mm
- Weight 548 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp plates, halftones, line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
This diverse selection of essays from the Royal Institution's Evening Discourses provides an accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology.
Written by seven eminent contributors, the essays explore areas ranging from ancient aphrodisiacs to the latest pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, from safety's debt to Davy and Faraday to the role of alcohol in the development of civilization.
Long description:
Much of our present knowledge of the Universe has come from observations made over the centuries with ever more powerful telescopes, operating from isolated mountain tops. But the Hubble Space Telescope, the first to be launched into space, is revolutionising our ability to picture and understand the universe. In Exploring the Universe, astronomer Alexander Boksenberg shows how a star is born and how the magnificent pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will enable
us to explore the universe in ever more depth.
Together with other essays from experts in their field - from magic bullets derived from traditional folk medicines to the role science can play in understanding the work of Mondrian and other artists - this selection of essays from the Royal Institution's Evening Discourses provides an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology.
Table of Contents:
Aphrodisiacs, psychedelics, and the elusive magic bullet
Visual art and the visual brain
Exploring the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope
Sheathing the two-edged sword - 100 years of radioactivity
Alcohol in the development of human civilization
Incremental decisions in a complex world
Safety's debt to Davy and Faraday
