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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
The ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science--moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply. Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces, when scientists were dazzled by l...
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New York
Alfred A. Knopf
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Galileo : the way things really move
- William Harvey : mysteries of the heart
- Isaac Newton : what a color is
- Antoine-Laurent 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.