The Golem
What You Should Know About Science
2nd Edition
Part of Canto Classics
- Authors:
- Harry M. Collins
- Trevor Pinch
- Date Published: March 2012
- availability: In stock
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107604650
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Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation. The very well-received first edition generated much debate, reflected in a substantial new Afterword in this second edition, which seeks to place the book in what have become known as 'the science wars'.
Read more- Second edition of a very well received title
- Original edition generated much controversy, debate and publicity, addressed in this new edition
- Demystifies science and is highly readable on complex subjects
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'… it succeeds extraordinarily well in this task of portraying and assessing the real fabric of scientific research, based on the insights of modern scholarship.' Bernard Dixon, former Editor, New Scientist
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: March 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107604650
- length: 204 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction: the Golem
1. Edible knowledge: the chemical transfer of memory
2. Two experiments that 'proved' the theory of relativity
3. The sun in a test tube: the story of cold fusion
4. The germs of dissent: Louis Pasteur and the origins of life
5. A new window on the universe: the non-detection of gravitational radiation
6. The sex life of the whiptail lizard
7. Set the controls for the heart of the sun: the strange story of the missing solar neutrinos
Conclusion: putting the Golem to work
Afterword
References and further reading
Index.
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