Invisible - The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics

Informationen zum Autor Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature . His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct , Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics . Klappentext If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility. This book offers a history of humanity's turbulent relationship with the invisible. Zusammenfassung If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility. This book offers a history of humanity's turbulent relationship with the invisible.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Ball, Ball Philip
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780099590439
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959043-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kulturgeschichte, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, SCIENCE / Natural History, Popular psychology, History of Science, PSYCHOLOGY / Essays