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L'idea che la creazione artificiale della vita sia una cosa perversa e blasfema - in una parola "innaturale" - è essenzialmente un costrutto culturale. Affrontare le attuali controversie su staminali, clonazione, modificazioni del corredo genetico e biotecnologie in generale senza studiare la storia culturale della "creazione della vita" è impossibile. Solo esaminando i miti e le leggende, da Aristotele a Paracelso, da Mary Shelley ad Aldous H...

In questo saggio Philip Ball racconta la storia dei colori, dai pigmenti minerali ai coloranti organici all'artificio dei prodotti della chimica. Grazie alla sua interpretazione del linguaggio cromatico, scopriamo che un particolare pigmento "parla" di sangue e clorofilla, mentre un altro rievoca lo zolfo e il mercurio degli alchimisti, impariamo le ragioni fisico-chimiche per cui il tempo ridipinge le tele, ci rendiamo conto di come spesso si...

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Original publication and copyright date: 2010.

A revelatory, lavishly illustrated exploration of nature's magnificent patterns and forms--and of their origins in simple physical law. 24 color plates. 248 color photos. 166 illustrations.

First British examination of the campaign for more than forty years.

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient element has so dramatically shaped the country's fate that it remains the key to unlocking China's story. That element is water. In The Water Kingdom Philip Ball takes us on a grand tour of China's defining element, from the rice terraces an...

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In questo libro, Ball esplora i meccanismi che ci consentono di dare un senso alla musica e di emozionarci di fronte alla più semplice melodia come alla più elaborata composizione. In modo esauriente e documentato, l'autore avvicina il neofita e gli appassionati ai misteri di un'arte presente in tutte le culture, illuminandoci sull'incredibile lavoro che il nostro cervello compie per interpretare i messaggi sonori. Con il piglio dell'esperto, ...

There was a time when curiosity was condemned.By examining the rise of curiosity from the dawn of modern science to today, we can examine how it functions in science, how it is spun, packaged and sold, and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may ask.

Un ensayo de divulgación científica apasionante, sobre la historia de la creación de seres humanos a cargo de otros seres humanos. ¿ Un tema con implicaciones médicas (clonación, fecundación in vitro), literarias (Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll y Hyde, Un mundo feliz), históricas (experimentos con alquimia en la Edad Media, evolución de las costumbres y leyes) y hasta sociales y de actualidad (células madre). ¿ Ball trata el tema desde todas estas...

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Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science...

Ball offers an architectural biography of the magnificent Chartres cathedral, a revolution in thought embodied in stone and glass, and the greatest conjunction of religion, science, and technology in Western history. Illustrated.

A dazzlingly energetic debut novel about the search for unlimited energy - featuring a misunderstood maverick physicist and a dogged young journalist who senses the scoop of the century, in a brilliant fusion of science and story. A first foray into fiction for an award-winning and accessible non-fiction writer

Philip Ball explores the elusive rules that govern flow in nature - from the swirl of a wisp of smoke and eddies in rivers, to the huge persistent storm that is the Great Spot on Jupiter. Whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds, he explains the science of the extraordinary forms and patterns that emerge.

Philip Ball explores the science of the branching patterns we see in nature, revealing that there is much more to these networks than meets the eye. Whether trees, snowflakes, forked lightning, or systems of arteries and veins, he explains how there are hidden rules at work that can give us extraordinary insights into the nature of life itself.

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It takes on the myths and morals of Plato, the occult obsessions of the Middle Ages, the trickeries and illusions of stage magic, the auras and ethers of Victorian physics, military strategies to camouflage armies and ships and the discovery of invisibly small worlds.