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  Published 2003
  
  Is
science beautiful? Yes, argues acclaimed philosopher and historian of science Robert P. Crease in this engaging
exploration of history’s most beautiful experiments. The result is an engrossing journey through nearly 2,500
years of scientific innovation. Along the way, we encounter glimpses into the personalities and creative thinking of
some of the field’s most interesting figures.
  
  We see the first measurement of the earth’s
circumference, accomplished in the third century B.C. by Eratosthenes using sticks, shadows, and simple geometry. We
visit Foucault’s mesmerizing pendulum, a cannonball suspended from the dome of the Panthéon in Paris that
allows us to see the rotation of the earth on its axis. We meet Galileo—the only scientist with two experiments
in the top ten—brilliantly drawing on his musical training to measure the speed of falling bodies. And we travel
to the quantum world, in the most beautiful experiment of all.
  
  We also learn why these ten experiments
exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations. From the ancient world to cutting-edge physics, these ten exhilarating
moments reveal something fundamental about the world, pulling us out of confusion and revealing nature’s
elegance. The Prism and the Pendulum brings us face-to-face with the wonder of science.
  
  From the
Hardcover edition.
  
  **
  
  Review
  
  “Science and scientists are so often
seen as cold and emotionless, but they are passionately drawn to beauty and truth, no less intensely than artists or
poets. One can open this book anywhere and get a sense of this special passion—each chapter has its own special
feel and delectations, and all of them bring out that beauty, for scientists, is no less important than truth, and that
one can be ravished by an experiment no less than by a work of art.”
  —Oliver Sacks
  
 
“In an era in which the public perceives science as a string of ethereal ideas conjured up by cute men in tweed
jackets sitting in overstuffed leather chairs in the faculty lounge, The Prism and the Pendulum creates a refreshing
portrait of beauty in science: of men with rough hands polishing inclined planes, peering into wells, climbing towers,
or sitting in the dark looking for the one spark in eight thousand that would ignite the nuclear age. In this readable,
narrative-driven book, we meet scientists wresting the truth from nature by confronting her on a physical, visceral
level. Robert Crease, with this volume, destroys and corrects the ‘damn good stories’ commonly used to
teach science, and places himself among our most important science historians and philosophers.”
 
—Dick Teresi, author of Lost Discoveries, coauthor of The God Particle, cofounder of Omni
  
  From the
Hardcover edition.
  
  From the Inside Flap
  
  Is science beautiful? Yes, argues acclaimed
philosopher and historian of science Robert P. Crease in this engaging exploration of history's most beautiful
experiments. The result is an engrossing journey through nearly 2,500 years of scientific innovation. Along the way, we
encounter glimpses into the personalities and creative thinking of some of the field's most interesting figures. 
 
We see the first measurement of the earth's circumference, accomplished in the third century B.C. by Eratosthenes using
sticks, shadows, and simple geometry. We visit Foucault's mesmerizing pendulum, a cannonball suspended from the dome of
the Pantheon in Paris that allows us to see the rotation of the earth on its axis. We meet Galileo--the only scientist
with two experiments in the top ten--brilliantly drawing on his musical training to measure the speed of falling bodies.
And we travel to the quantum world, in the most beautiful experiment of all. 
  We also learn why these ten
experiments exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations. From the ancient world to cutting-edge physics, these ten
exhilarating moments reveal something fundamental about the world, pulling us out of confusion and revealing nature's
elegance. "The Prism and the Pendulum brings us face-to-face with the wonder of science. 						

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