Bryson, Bill (Editor)
Turney, Jon (Editor)
William Morrow
Physical Details: 506 pp.; ill.
Language: English
Description Contents: At the beginning: More things in heaven and earth / James Gleick -- Of the madness of mad scientists: Jonathan Swift's grand academy / Margaret Atwood -- Lost in space: The spiritual crisis of Newtonian cosmology / Margaret Wertheim -- Atoms of cognition: Metaphysics in the Royal Society / Neal Stephenson -- What's in a name?: Rivalries and the birth of modern science / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- Charged atmospheres: Promethean science and the Royal Society / Simon Schaffer -- A new age of flight: Joseph Banks goes ballooning / Richard Holmes -- Archives of life: Science and collections / Richard Fortey -- Darwin's five bridges: The way to natural selection / Richard Dawkins -- Images of progress: Conferences of engineers / Henry Petroski -- X-ray visions: Structural biologists and social action in the twentieth century / Georgina Ferry -- Ten thousand wedges: Biodiversity, natural selection and random change / Steve Jones -- Making stuff: From Bacon to bakelite / Philip Ball -- Just typical: Our changing place in the universe / Paul Davies -- Behind the scenes: The hidden mathematics that rules our world / Ian Stewart -- Simple, really: From simplicity to complexity--and back again / John D. Barrow -- Globe and sphere, cycles and flows: How to see the world / Oliver Morton -- Beyond ending: Looking into the void / Maggie Gee -- Confidence, consensus and the uncertainty cops: Tackling risk management in climate change / Stephen H. Schneider -- Time: The winged chariot / Gregory Benford -- Conclusion: Looking fifty years ahead / Martin Rees. (from WorldCat)
Chapter Petroski, Henry (2010) Images of progress: Conferences of engineers. In: Seeing further: The story of science, discovery, and the genius of the Royal Society (p. 228).
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