Curiosity : how science became interested in everything

• Main Author: Ball, Philip, 1962- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013
• Subjects: dějiny vědy; vědecké poznání; zvědavost; history of science; scientific knowledge; curiosity; populárně-naučné publikace; popular works
• ISBN: 9780226045795 0-226-04579-X
• Physical Description: viii, 465 s. : il. ; 24 cm

Table of Contents:

• Old questions
• The academies of secrets
• The theatre of curiosity
• The hunt of Pan
• Professors of everything
• More things in Heaven and Earth
• Cosmic disharmonies
• The first men in the moon
• Nature free and bound
• On the head of a pin
• The light of nature
• Chasing elephants
• Professional virtuosi, or curiosity served cold