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  • With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science—that it’s not merely encouraged but is seen as an…
    Curiosity

    Curiosity - How Science Became Interested in Everything

    By Philip Ball University of Chicago Press, April 2013 ISBN: 9780226045825 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and…
    Universe of Stone

    Universe of Stone

    By Philip Ball rating of short cover   ( 59 customer ratings) HarperCollins, March 2009 ISBN: 9780061970078 Architecture, History Language:  English
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  • Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates…
    Shapes:Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    Shapes:Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    By Philip Ball OUP Oxford, May 2011 ISBN: 9780191619854 Science & Nature, Science Language:  English
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  • As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what…
    Branches:Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    Branches:Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    By Philip Ball rating of short cover   ( 26 customer ratings) OUP Oxford, May 2011 ISBN: 9780191579837 Science & Nature, Science Language:  English
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  • From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of…
    The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    By Philip Ball rating of short cover   ( 152 customer ratings) Oxford University Press, USA, August 2010 ISBN: 9780199780075 Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Language:  English
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  • From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the…
    Flow:Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    Flow:Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    By Philip Ball rating of short cover   ( 28 customer ratings) OUP Oxford, June 2009 ISBN: 9780191579820 Science & Nature, Science Language:  English
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  • Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishment…
    The Devil's Doctor

    The Devil's Doctor - Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

    By Philip Ball rating of short cover   ( 93 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2006 ISBN: 9781429921824 Language:  English
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  • Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that…
    Critical Mass

    Critical Mass - How One Thing Leads to Another

    By Philip Ball rating of short cover   ( 444 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2006 ISBN: 9781466806832 Social Science, Sociology Language:  English
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