After five centuries of remarkable discovery science is still at its beginning - what we already know is but a tiny fraction of what we still have to understand. In this extraordinary book John Maddox, editor of Nature for 21 years, investigates how science will change the world and our place in it and what remains to be found out to make our outstanding of the world more complete. Each chapter will deal with a different field of science, describing in general language the problems now in the front of working scientists' minds and those lying at a greater distance ahead. As the book progresses, it will emerge that the problems still unsolved compare in their challenge with those now counted among the greatest triumphs of research and in their importance with the way in which five centuries of modern science have already given us an awesome glimpse of the world which we live in, of our competence and of our vulnerabililty.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780333650080
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96456612
Product Key Features
Author
John Maddox
Publication Name
What Remains to Be Discovered
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
780g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John Maddox
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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