The Big Idea: The Best and Worst Ideas in 150 Years of Modern Science (Scientific American (Ibooks))

by Scientific American (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $15.90

  A presentation of the sometimes hilarious human aspect of science as well as a serious timetable of scientific discovery. This book goes beyond the headlines to present the passion, prejudice and outrage that, from 1845 on, formed the ideas of modern science, from the sublime to the ridiculous.