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Eine spannende Reise durch die Welt der experimentellen Naturwissenschaft.Vom Foucaultschen Pendel bis zum DNA-Origami.Erfolgsautor Philip Ball garantiert fundierte und spannende Lektüre.Wie groß ist die Erde? Was ist Licht und wie entsteht Wärme? Was hat es mit der Schwerkraft auf sich und wie funktioniert der genetische Code? Über diese und ähnliche Fragen haben Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen über die Jahrhunderte nachgedacht und d...

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Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? And why, during this time, did Europeans begin to build churches in a new style, at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic?Universe of Stone shows that the Gothic cathedrals...

Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of biology for the 21st century.

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Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares.   This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers have used throughout the ages to study‿and to change‿the world. Here we see in intricate detail experiments that have, in some way or another, exhibited eleg...

Over the past two decades, our understanding of the ways life functions have been transformed in many ways ¿ but the public narratives about biology have not kept up. By drawing on these recent discoveries and insights, this book outlines a new vision of biology for the 21st century.

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Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human? Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them--including in plants, aliens, and God--Philip Ball ...

Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly illuminates how many different ways there are to think and engage with the world, and how unique are our own.

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Eine atemberaubende visuelle Reise zu den chemischen Bausteinen unseres Universums! Gold, Kupfer, Zinn und Silber - hinter jedem Element des Periodensystems verbergen sich spannende Geschichten.Wie die Menschheit die chemischen Elemente entdeckte und sich zu Nutze machte.«Die Elemente» ist eine atemberaubende visuelle Reise durch die Entdeckungsgeschichte der chemischen Bausteine unseres Universums. Sie beginnt in der Vorgeschichte, als sich d...

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time--fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them--and still living them--today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called "modern myths." But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ...

Philip Ball explores the science of the shapes we see in nature, revealing how, from the stripes of a zebra to the development of a snowflake or even a human embryo, there is a pattern-forming tendency in the basic processes of nature, and from a few simple themes, and the repetition of simple rules, endless beautiful variations can arise.

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Science Book Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly illuminates how many different ways there are to think and engage with the world, and how particular are our own.

Science Book Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly illuminates how many different ways there are to think and engage with the world, and how particular are our own.

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