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As editor of "Seeing Further," Bryson has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society, Britain's scientific national academy. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson, among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened endtimes of flu and climate change to our evolving ideas about the nature of time itself, from the hidden mathematics that rule the universe to the…
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9 editions- Other · English · 2019HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008301620
- Other · English · 2011Harper Perennial · 506 pages · 9780061999772
- Other · English · 2011HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 501 pages · 9780007302574
- Other · English · 2010Doubleday Canada · 9780385667463
- Other · English · 2010HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007358007
- Other · English · 2010HarperPress · 490 pages · 9780007302567
Royal Society (Great Britain)Discoveries in scienceHistoryScience and civilizationSciencesRoyal Society (Grande-Bretagne)Social aspectsScience