(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.
An editor of Nature magazine for over twenty years, Philip Ball presents us with three simple questions with which to become “scientifically literate”, or to put it another way: capable of thinking productively about most of the Science taught in schools, and also the Science we encounter in everyday life.
Asking these three questions – which open out, connect and prompt us to form new ones – means taking your first steps on the adventure that we call a search for knowledge.
So, let’s get to it: ask away!
A book for young readers and those of all ages – Whether or not Science fans.
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Scientific revision by Joana Gonçalves de Sá, Maria M. M. Santos, Bruno Almeida and Paulo Catry.
224 pages / 170 x 218 mm
ISBN: 978.989.9061.29.3 / RRP: 24€
1st Edition: February 2025
© Rights sold: Korean, Russian
Published in Portuguese by Planeta Tangerina later in 2025