Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society edited by Bill Bryson

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Secondhand. Fair condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Water damage to the back cover and the last 50 pages of the book - pages are all separate but have a wobble to the top third of the page. Not a collectable copy but certainly readable.

Tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.

On a damp weeknight in November, 350 years ago, a dozen or so men gathered at Gresham College in London, Christopher Wren was giving a lecture on astronomy. As his audience listened, they decided it would be a good idea to create a Society to promote the accumulation of useful knowledge. With that, the Royal Society was born.

Since its birth, the Royal Society has pioneered scientific exploration and discovery. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Joseph Banks, Humphry Davy, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Locke, and Alexander Fleming were all fellows.

The Royal Society continues to do today what it set out to do all those years ago. Its members have split the atom, discovered the double helix, the electron, the computer and the World Wide Web.

From the Royal Society comes a peerless collection of all-new science writing. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson writing on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear ...