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Title: The Science Class You Wish You Had: The Seven Greatest Scientific Discoveries in History and the People Who Made Them by David Eliot Brody, Arnold R. Brody ISBN: 0-399-52313-8 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Science Class
Comment: I enjoyed reading this book very much. The first two chapters are out of this world. They provide a factual, easy-to-read account of the development of physics, and cosmology in particular. Although history of scientific ideas in the political context is one of my specialties, I found these chapters educational. Everything is laid out in such a way that it is easy to understand which scientist made which contribution to the development of our understanding of the universe.
The only reservation I had about this book is that it has its dogmatic moments, for example when the authors claim that the theory of evolution is not a "theory," but something above it, because it has been "proved." One of the authors is a practicing attorney, which may be the reason for this approach. Scientific theories are not "proved" the way mathematical theorems are, or the way one proves things in a court of law. Scientific theories are always tentative, provisional, hypothetical. Science includes facts. For example that a coin can land in three ways: hads, tails, or (incredibly) on its side. This is not a theory, but a fact, and it can certainly not be "disproved." If the authors want to call evolution a fact, they are free to do so. But science is not a court of law--it does not prove things.
Rating: 2
Summary: Science for drama majors
Comment: Really boring and some of the author's words were more confusing than any mathematical equation. I was very disappointed with this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very cool.
Comment: This book is excellent for anyone who is curious about science but had teachers and professors who made science as boring as possible. It includes one of the best explanations of Relativity I have found.
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Title: The Day the Universe Changed : How Galileo's Telescope Changed The Truth and Other Events in History That Dramatically Al by James Burke ISBN: 0316117048 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.45 |
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Title: The Next Fifty Years : Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century by John Brockman ISBN: 0375713425 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Great Feuds in Science : Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever by Hal Hellman ISBN: 0471350664 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Teaching Children Science: A Project-Based Approach by Joseph S. Krajcik, Charlene M. Czerniak, Carl Berger ISBN: 0070360073 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 23 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $58.25 |
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Title: In Quest of the Universe by Karl F. Kuhn, Theo Koupelis ISBN: 0763712299 Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $72.95 |
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