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(Toda) A Ciência em Três Grandes Perguntas

(Toda) A Ciência em Três Grandes Perguntas by Philip Ball

Science (all of it) in only three questions

(Portuguese edition)
A book for children
Illustrated by Bernardo P. Carvalho

What’s Science really about?
Having all the answers?
Memorising a whole load of information?
Discovering stuff in order to solve specific problems?

Philip Ball, the author of this book, believes that Science is something altogether different, and that a good scientist is not necessarily someone who has all the answers, but someone who knows how to ask the right questions, moving between different fields and being curious, just for the sake of it.

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ALCHEMY: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science by Philip Ball

The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people since antiquity. Many early cultures are known to have experimented with chemical transformations: from dyes, glazes, and cosmetics in Bronze Age Egypt to life-extending elixirs pursued by scholars in ancient China and India. Many have also attempted to transform lead, mercury, and other metals, into gold – and some claimed to have succeeded.

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HOW LIFE WORKS: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball

Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more—have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.

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BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science

Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science by Philip Ball

Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments it documents.

This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers have used throughout the ages to study—and to change—the world. Here we see in intricate detail experiments that have, in some way or another, exhibited elegance and beauty: in their design, their conception, and their execution. Celebrated science writer Philip Ball invites readers to marvel at and admire the craftsmanship of scientific instruments and apparatus on display, from the earliest microscopes to the giant particle colliders of today.

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