Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society by Stephen H. Schneider, Steve Jones, Paul Davies, Oliver Morton, Richard Dawkins, Philip Ball, Richard Fortey, Neal Stephenson, John D. Barrow, James Gleick, Ian Stewart, Martin J. Rees, Gregory Benford, Henry Petroski, Richard Holmes, Margaret Atwood, Bill Bryson, Simon Schaffer, Margaret Wertheim, Georgina Ferrey, Maggie Gee, Rebecca Goldstein

Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society

Stephen H. Schneider, Steve Jones, Paul Davies, Oliver Morton, Richard Dawkins, Philip Ball, Richard Fortey, Neal Stephenson, John D. Barrow, James Gleick, Ian Stewart, Martin J. Rees, Gregory Benford, Henry Petroski, Richard Holmes, Margaret Atwood, Bill Bryson, Simon Schaffer, Margaret Wertheim, Georgina Ferrey, Maggie Gee, Rebecca Goldstein

490 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction essays history science informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Socie...

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