Critical mass : how one thing leads to another / Philip Ball.
Critical mass : how one thing leads to another / Philip Ball.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N301/ 294
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English
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p. cm.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
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1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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"In searching for answers, the science writer Philip Ball argues that we can enlist help from a seemingly unlikely source: physics. The first person to think this way was the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. His approach, described in Leviathan, was based not on utopian wishful thinking, but rather on Galileo's mechanics; it w...
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Critical mass : how one thing leads to another / Philip Ball.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N301/ 294
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74VK25kkGylM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK25kkGylM
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ISBN
0434011355 (hc : alk. paper)
9780374281250 (hc : alk. paper)
0374281254 (hc : alk. paper)
9780434011353 (hc : alk. paper)
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301
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991018204669702626
