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Is there a book with collection of stories like this?
by rimantas 14y ago
Is there a book with collection of stories like this?
- andrewcooke 14y agoa couple of good, but old, anthologies are "a random walk in science" (and whatever the follow-up was called - perhaps "more random walks..."). this search has the first one as a pdf in the first hit - https://www.google.cl/search?q=a+random+walk+in+science&oq=a+random+walk+in+science&aqs=chrome.0.57j62l3j64l2.6612&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.cl/search?q=a+random+walk+in+science&...
- srathi 14y agoSlightly off-topic: there is a story-like narrative description of development of quantum mechanics in a book by Manjit Kumar. I don't recall the title, though.
- Avalaxy 14y agoI was just about to post this, but 'A short history of nearly everything' by Bill Bryson has a LOT of these stories. It explains how we determined the circumference and the weight of the earth, the distance to the moon and the sun, etc. In fact the whole book is about this, it explains all the important scientific breakthroughs from the past and how we've gotten to them.