by Martin Gardner · OUP · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192860477
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«The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science» is the anthology of scientific essays edited by Martin Gardner in paperback (in English).
Thirty-two scientists and popularizers, from Darwin to Einstein, Asimov, Sagan, Freud or Rachel Carson, address topics such as evolution, the sea, logic, physics or the relationship between science and literature. Martin Gardner selects and presents the texts, with comments and biographical notes.
Revised edition of «Great Essays in Science» (1957), published in 1985 in the Oxford Paperbacks series; includes index. Text in English, 432 pages.
Recommended for those who enjoy science popularization and the history of ideas.
Martin Gardner was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science. His interests also encompassed magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
