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Seeing Further. THE STORY OF SCIENCE & THE ROYAL SOCIETY
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Table of Contents
BILL BRYSON. INTRODUCTION
1 JAMES GLEICK. AT THE BEGINNING: MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
2 MARGARET AT WOOD. OF THE MADNESS OF MAD SCIENTISTS: JONATHAN SWIFT’S GRAND ACADEMY
3 MARGARET WERTHEIM. LOST IN SPACE: THE SPIRITUAL CRISIS OF NEWTONIAN COSMOLOGY
STARSHIP DREAMING
A SHORT HISTORY OF SPACE
WHERE IS HEAVEN?
POST-NEWTONIAN SPACE
SPACE AND SELF
A SCIENCE OF MIND
CONCLUSION
4 NEAL STEPHENSON. ATOMS OF COGNITION: METAPHYSICS IN THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1715-2010
Notes
5 REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN. WHAT’S IN A NAME? RIVALRIES AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE
EXPLANATION RE-EXPLAINED
OF ENDS AND MEANS
UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS
Notes
6 SIMON SCHAFFER. CHARGED ATMOSPHERES: PROMETHEAN SCIENCE AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY
CHARGED ATMOSPHERES, OR HOW TO MAKE A LIGHTNING ROD
PROMETHEAN SCIENCE, OR HOW TO BE AN EXPERT
Notes
Further Reading
7 RICHARD HOLMES. A NEW AGE OF FLIGHT: JOSEPH BANKS GOES BALLOONING
BALLOMANIA
REPORTS
PRACTICAL FLYING
NAVIGATION
RETROSPECTIVE
Notes
Further Reading
8 RICHARD FORTEY. ARCHIVES OF LIFE: SCIENCE AND COLLECTIONS
Notes
9 RICHARD DAWKINS. DARWIN’S FIVE BRIDGES: THE WAY TO NATURAL SELECTION
Notes
10 HENRY PETROSKI. IMAGES OF PROGRESS: CONFERENCES OF ENGINEERS
Further Reading
11 GEORGINA FERRY. X-RAY VISIONS: STRUCTURAL BIOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL ACTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
FATHER AND SON
THE SAGE OF SCIENCE
PROTEINS AND PRIZES
LEGACIES
ENVOI
Notes
12 STEVE JONES. TEN THOUSAND WEDGES: BIODIVERSITY, NATURAL SELECTION AND RANDOM CHANGE
FROM DELIGHT TO DOUBT
BIODIVERSITY PRESENT AND FUTURE
THE HIDDEN WORLD OF BIODIVERSITY
BIODIVERSITY AND WHERE TO FIND IT
WHAT DRIVES BIODIVERSITY?
RANDOMNESS AND THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE
Notes
Further Reading
13 PHILIP BALL. MAKING STUFF: FROM BACON TO BAKELITE
BROTHERHOODS OF SCIENCE
PRACTICAL CRAFTS
MAKING METALS
SYNTHETIC MYTHOLOGY
ENGINEERING LIFE
WHY ENGINEERING MATTERS
Notes
Further Reading
14 PAUL DAVIES. JUST TYPICAL: OUR CHANGING PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
15 IAN STEWART. BEHIND THE SCENES: THE HIDDEN MATHEMATICS THAT RULES OUR WORLD
HOW IMPORTANT IS MATHEMATICS IN TODAY’S WORLD?
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY HAS BORNE FRUIT AS TECHNOLOGY
16 JOHN D. BARROW. SIMPLE REALLY: FROM SIMPLICITY TO COMPLEXITY – AND BACK AGAIN
WHAT IS THE WORLD LIKE?
THE QUEST FOR SIMPLICITY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES?
WHY IS THE WORLD MATHEMATICAL?
THE COPERNICAN PRINCIPLE APPLIED TO LAWS
OUTCOMES ARE DIFFERENT
AMBIGUITIES BETWEEN LAWS AND OUTCOMES
DISORGANISED COMPLEXITIES
ORGANISED COMPLEXITIES
ON THE EDGE OF CHAOS
Notes
17 OLIVER MORTON. GLOBE AND SPHERE, CYCLES AND FLOWS: HOW TO SEE THE WORLD
Notes
Further Reading
18 MAGGIE GEE. BEYOND ENDING: LOOKING INTO THE VOID
I
II
III
IV
V
19 STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER. CONFIDENCE, CONSENSUS AND THE UNCERTAINTY COPS: TACKLING RISK MANAGEMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE
MODELLING FUTURE CLIMATE
BACK TO BAYES
CHANGING THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE
A LANGUAGE FOR RISK
WHERE NEXT?
Notes
20 GREGORY BENFORD. TIME: THE WINGED CHARIOT
EVOLVING TIME
RELATIVE TIME
TIME’S MOMENTUM
DEEP TIME REVISITED
COSMOLOGICAL TIME
21 MARTIN REES. CONCLUSION: LOOKING FIFTY YEARS AHEAD
WHAT WILL WE UNDERSTAND IN 2060?
THE ‘RELIEF OF MAN’S ESTATE’
A HAZARDOUS WORLD
THE ROLE OF ACADEMIES AND ‘CITIZEN SCIENTISTS’
EPILOGUE
PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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CONTRIBUTING EDITOR JON TURNEY
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Keith shows me some papers he has just been cataloguing. They are letters from Thomas Thorpe, an English chemist, written to his wife, Emma, during an 1878 Royal Society expedition to the American west. The purpose of the expedition was to view a solar eclipse, which, among other things, would allow them to confirm or disprove the existence of the planet Vulcan. The papers are irresistibly absorbing, partly because Thorpe brings a scientist’s curiosity to everything he sees – the quality of US trout, the character of the town of Cheyenne (home of ‘6,000 of the biggest scoundrels the world contains’), the climate, geology, everything – but also because they so vividly and charmingly catalogue the difficulties and discomforts necessary to do science in the field in the nineteenth century (or possibly any time).
When you look along the stacks or peek into the drawers, it is impossible not to be struck with wonder at how much aggregated human effort – how much thought and toil and nights under canvas – is embedded in what we know about the world and universe and how they are put together.
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