Plotting the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory, John Carey chooses accounts by scientists themselves that are both elegant and arrestingly written. The classic science-writers are here: Darwin, Huxley, Fabre. So, too, are the luminaries of the late-twentieth-century genre of popular science-writing which, Carey argues, challenges contemporary poetry and fiction in its imaginative power.
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PREFACE. THE present Bibliographical Index owes its origin to the fact that in 1874, when the writer returned from Europe where he had spent a couple of years in the study of mycology, he found it imp...
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