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The search for extraterrestrial life : essays on science and technology /
This volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from studies of Venus and what they tell us about the Earth, the history and possible futur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Proceedings of the Royal Institution.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from studies of Venus and what they tell us about the Earth, the history and possible future of television, to the interface between art and science - using spectroscopy to analyse the pigments in Medieval manuscripts. Will we be able to build machines with molecular-basedmemories? How do you deal with an historic tower `founded on jelly and slowly inclining to the point at which it is ab. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780191506147 0191506141 |