Description: Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's bejewelled history. Science, humankind's greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement of knowledge. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unusual tidbits from across science and its history. Read in full Galileo's infamous recantation of his view of a heliocentric solar system; sample questions from the University of Oxford's first public examination in 1858 and marvel at Sir Ronald Ross's poem describing his discovery of the life-cycle of the malaria parasite. Meet the full family of subatomic particles, view a geological clock, learn pi to 500 decimal places, discover the animals that have become extinct since 1900, see what a spiral periodic table looks like and much, much more.
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Personalised: No
Unit Quantity: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Science Magpie: Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams and Jokes Plucked from Science
Publisher: Icon Books LTD
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Science
Item Height: 200 mm
Item Weight: 271 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Simon Flynn
Item Width: 130 mm
Format: Paperback