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Mission to Abisko : stories and myths in the creation of scientific "truth" / edited by John L. Casti, Anders Karlqvist.
LIBRA Q167 .M5 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Storytelling--Scientific application.
- Storytelling.
- Science writers.
- Scientific literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Stories and myths in the creation of scientific "truth"
- Place of Publication:
- Reading, MA : Perseus Books, 1999.
- Contents:
- Analogy of nature John D. Barrow; Proving the dream Greg Bear; Beyond this horizon: envisioning the next century, or stories of our (preventable?) future(s) Gregory Benford; Cambridge quintet: the chronicle John L. Casti; Becoming Maureen-a story of development Jack Cohen; Algorithmic and ascetic storytelling: alternative approaches to imagination and reality Per-A. Johnson; Einstein at the amusement park: the public story of relativity in Swedish culture Kjell Jonsson; Telling science Anders Karlqvist; Frankenstein's daughter Paul J. McAuley; Mission to Abisko Larry Niven; Secret narratives of mathematics Ian Stewart.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0738200026 :
- OCLC:
- 40686301
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