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"Science only knows one commandment: contribute to science." This line, spoken by the title character in Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo, inspired the title of this collection of science writing by 59 diverse authors. Most of the pieces collected by editor Edmund Blair Bolles are excerpted from texts by working scientists or natural philosophers, including George Smoot of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer to Lucretius. Marie Curie's joy on seeing the lovely, glowing bottles of impure radium in her workroom at night is just one of the vivid images to be extracted from this volume, though with far less effort than the radium cost the Curies.
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Edmund Blair Bolles is a New York writer whose special interest is science, and he is the author of a number of books on children's language, the nature of memory and perception (see below).
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- PublisherLittle & Brown
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0316648280
- ISBN 13 9780316648288
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