The ten most beautiful experiments /

Johnson, George, 1952 January 20-

The ten most beautiful experiments / 10 most beautiful experiments George Johnson. - First edition. - xiv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-178) and index.

Galileo : the way things really move -- William Harvey : mysteries of the heart -- Isaac Newton : what a color is -- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier : the farmer's daughter -- Luigi Galvani : animal electricity -- Michael Faraday : something deeply hidden -- James Joule : how the world works -- A.A. Michelson : lost in space -- Ivan Pavlov : measuring the immeasurable -- Robert Millikan : in the borderland -- Epilogue : the eleventh most beautiful experiment.

9781400041015 1400041015

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Science--Experiments
Science--History

Q182.3 / .J65 2008

507.8