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02820aam a22003253 4500 001 4869CA08AC7811E19E2DE1C16AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120602010035 008 110216s2011 xx 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0061999776 020 $a 9780061999772 035 $a (OCoLC)703206623 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d SILO $d TUC $d SILO 245 0 $a Seeing further : $b the story of science, discovery, and the genius of the Royal Society / $c edited & introduced by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor, Jon Turney. 250 $a First Harper Perennial ed. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2011. 300 $a 506 p. : $b ill. (some col.) ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 486-489) . 505 00 $t Conclusion: Looking fifty years ahead / $r Martin Rees. $t Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's grand academy / $r Margaret Atwood -- $t Lost in space : the spiritual crisis of Newtonian cosmology / $r Margaret Wertheim -- $t Atoms of cognition : metaphysics in the Royal Society / $r Neal Stephenson -- $t What's in a name? : Rivalries and the birth of modern science / $r Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- $t Charged atmospheres : promethean science and the Royal Society / $r Simon Schaffer -- $t A new age of flight : Joseph Banks goes ballooning / $r Richard Holmes -- $t Archives of life : science and collections / $r Richard Fortey -- $t Darwin's five bridges : the way to natural selection / $r Richard Dawkins -- $t Images of progress : conferences of engineers / $r Henry Petroski -- $t X-ray visions : structural biologists and social action in the twentieth century / $r Georgina Ferry -- $t Ten thousand wedges : biodiversity, natural selection and random change / $r Steve Jones -- $t Making stuff : From Bacon to bakelite / $r Philip Ball -- $t Just typical : our changing place in the universe / $r Paul Davies -- $t Behind the scenes : the hidden mathematics that rules our world / $r Ian Stewart -- $t Simple, really : from simplicity to complexity--and back again / $r John D. Barrow -- $t Globe and sphere, cycles and flows : how to see the world / $r Oliver Morton -- $t Beyond ending : looking into the void / $r Maggie Gee -- $t Confidence, consensus and the uncertainty cops : tackling risk management in climate change / $r Stephen H. Schneider -- $t Time : the winged chariot / $r Gregory Benford -- $t Conclusion: Looking fifty years ahead / $r Martin Rees. 610 20 $a Royal Society (Great Britain) $x History. 650 0 $a Discoveries in science. 700 1 $a Bryson, Bill. 700 1 $a Turney, Jon. 941 $a 4 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417013325.0 952 $l XEPE697 $d 20190123011724.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20130702020949.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20120602010427.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4869CA08AC7811E19E2DE1C16AFF544E 994 $a Z0 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search