Title Great scientific experiments : 20 experiments that changed our view of the world / Rom Harré.

Imprint

Oxford : Phaidon, 1981.

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	Q182.3 .H37 1981	AVAILABLE

Description	222 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography	Bibliography: p. [221]-222.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	The embryology of the chick / Aristotle -- The process of digestion as chemistry / William Beaumont -- The discovery of dip and the field concept / Robert Norman -- The circulation of sap in plants / Stephen Hales -- The conditions of imprinting / Konrad Lorenz -- The law of descent / Galileo -- The measurement of the spring of the air / Robert Boyle -- The causes of the rainbow / Theodoric of Freibourg -- The preparation of artificial vaccines / Louis Pasteur -- The artificial transmutation of the elements / Ernest Rutherford -- The impossibility of detecting the motion of the earth / A.A. Michelson and E.W. Morley -- The direct transfer of genetic material / F. Jacob and E. Wollman -- The mechanism of perception / J.J. Gibson -- The proof of the oxygen hypothesis / A.L. Lavoisier -- The electrolytic isolation of new elements / Humphrey Davy -- The discovery of the electron / J.J. Thomson -- The nature of colours / Isaac Newton -- The identity of all forms of electricity / Michael Faraday -- The perfection of chemical measurement / J.J. Berzelius -- The wave aspect of matter and the third quantum number / Otto Stern.
Subject(s)	Science -- Experiments -- History.
	Scientists -- Biography.