Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Oxford University Press, Incorporated ISBN 019860940x 9780198609407 [GB]

Oxford University Press, USA, 08/07/Date: 2004 00:00:01. paperback. Very Good. 2.5381 in x 19.0355 in x 12.6904 in. 2004. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 019860940x 9780198609407 [GB]

ISBN10: 019860940X, ISBN13: 9780198609407, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2004-07-08] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes. ISBN 019860940x 9780198609407 [GB]

ISBN10: 019860940X, ISBN13: 9780198609407, [publisher: OUP Oxford] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. It has seen deep intellectual friendships, as well as ferocious animosities, and once in a while acts of theft and malice, deceit, and even a hoax or two. Scientists come in all shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, thegenial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting witches' brew at the veryclose of the twentieth century, the stories in Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer.Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist who breaks a thermometer in a reaction vat and finds mercury to be the catalyst that starts the modern dyestuff industry; or a famous physicist dissolving his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis, recovering it when the war ends; mathematicians and physicists diverting themselves in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, by creating ...
Show/Hide image