Philip Ball
Autor von Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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Philip Ball is a freelance writer who lives in London. He worked for over twenty years as an editor for Nature, writes regularly in the scientific and popular media, and has authored many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider culture, including, most recently, Serving mehr anzeigen the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler, also published by the University of Chicago Press. weniger anzeigen
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Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (2018) 191 Exemplare
The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens (2022) 65 Exemplare
Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science (2012) 12 Exemplare
A Waste of Blood and Treasure: The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of the Netherlands (2017) 11 Exemplare
Neither Up Nor Down: The British Army and the Campaign in Flanders 1793-1795 (From Reason to Revolution) (2020) 4 Exemplare
Why Physicists Make Up Stories in the Dark 1 Exemplar
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Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society [ SEEING FURTHER: THE STORY OF… (2010) — Mitwirkender — 1,023 Exemplare
The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (1968) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 386 Exemplare
The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. IV — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Time unwrapped : kings place : programme 2018 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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I found it impossible to read without an Internet access available around. Despite a number of illustrations the author constantly refers (and for good reasons) to a yet greater number of works. Thus it is more rewarding - both estethically and cognitively - to check those paintings to better understand the points made by this brilliant author.… (mehr)