Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Name: Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything
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ISBN: 9780226211695

ISBN-10: 022621169X

ISBN-13: 9780226211695

Edition: 2014

Authors: Philip Ball

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With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science--that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet there was a time when curiosity was condemned. Neither Pandora nor Eve could resist the dangerous allure of unanswered questions, and all knowledge wasn't equal--for millennia it was believed that there were some things we should not try to know. In the late sixteenth century this attitude began to change dramatically, and in Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Philip Ball investigates how curiosity first became sanctioned--when…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/17/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English