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Feb 10, 2015
In the course of a dozen chapters, science writer George Johnson describes ten historic scientific experiments distinguished by their simplicity and elegance. Contrasting these with contemporary teams of university-based researchers with access to multimillion-dollar equipment, Johnson notes that many of the experiments documented in this book - such as Isaac Newton's work with prisms - were carried out by individual scientists using handmade tools in their own homes. Nature and Science newsletter February 2015.