The golem : what you should know about science /
"What is the Golem? In Jewish mythology the Golem is an effigy or image brought to life. While not evil, it is a strong, clumsy, and incomplete servant. Through a series of case studies, ranging from relativity and cold fusion to memory in worms and the sex lives of lizards, Harry Collins and T...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998, 1993.
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Edición: | Second Canto edition. |
Colección: | Canto classics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The golem
- Edible knowledge : the chemical transfer of memory
- Two experiments that 'proved' the theory of relativity
- The sun in a test tube : the story of cold fusion
- The germs of dissent : Louis Pasteur and the origins of life
- A new window on the universe : the non-detection of gravitational radiation
- The sex life of the whiptail lizard
- Set the controls for the heart of the sun : the strange story of the missing solar neutrinos
- Putting the golem to work
- Golem and the scientists.