The Common But Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays
Keith Stewart Thomson(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 27. October 1993
Book
Hardback
197 pages
978-0-300-05630-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Piltdown fraud, the mystery of how the shark swims with an asymmetric tail, the debate over dinosaur extinction - these are some of the subjects covered in this book which celebrates the aesthetic, literary and intellectual aspects of science and conveys what it is to be a scientist.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Illustrations
20 illustrations, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 240 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-05630-3 (9780300056303)
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