Paperback. Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's bejewelled history. Science, humankind's greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement of knowledge. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unusual tidbits from across science and its history. Read in full Galileo's infamous recantation of his view of a heliocentric solar system; sample questions from the University of Oxford's first public examination in 1858 and marvel at Sir Ronald Ross's poem describing his discovery of the life-cycle of the malaria parasite. Meet the full family of subatomic particles, view a geological clock, learn pi to 500 decimal places, discover the animals that have become extinct since 1900, see what a spiral periodic table looks like and much, much more. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unusual tidbits from across science and its history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Science Magpie (Paperback)
Publisher: Icon Books, Duxford
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1848315996
ISBN 13: 9781848315990
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.

Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen.

Skip through time with Darwin's note on the pros and cons of marriage, take part in an 1858 Cambridge exam, meet the African schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more.

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Simon Flynn was a publisher and is now training as science teacher. He has degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy.

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