Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
- ISBN-10
- 022604579X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226045795
- Series
- Curiosity
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 474
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-03
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Philip Ball
Description
Explores the evolution of curiosity from stigma to scientific stimulus through a look at the inventions and discoveries made between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and details how curiosity functions in science today.
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- 2014-09-17
- 465 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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- 2001
- 321 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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