| Description |
1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Proceedings of the Royal Institution |
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Proceedings of the Royal Institution
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| Contents |
The search for extraterrestrial life-and the future of life on Earth / Arnold Wolfendale -- Magellan looks at Venus / Dan McKenzie -- Meteorites: messengers from the past / Monica M. Grady -- Television beyond the Millenium / Will Wyatt -- Molecular information processing: will it happen? / Peter Day -- 'There or thereabouts' / Andrew Wallard -- Pondering on Pisa / John Burland -- An arts/science interface: medieval manuscripts, pigments, and spectroscopy / Robin J.H. Clark -- The Royal Institution |
| Summary |
This volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from studies of Venus and what they tell us about the Earth, the history and possible future of television, to the interface between art and science - using spectroscopy to analyse the pigments in Medieval manuscripts. Will we be able to build machines with molecular-basedmemories? How do you deal with an historic tower ̀founded on jelly and slowly inclining to the point at which it is ab |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Life on other planets.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Life on other planets
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Meteorit
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Außerirdische Intelligenz
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Buitenaards leven.
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Venus (planeet)
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Meteorieten.
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Televisie.
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Moleculaire nanotechnologie.
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Meettechniek.
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Scheve toren van Pisa.
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Pigmenten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Day, P
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| LC no. |
98008015 |
| ISBN |
9780191506147 |
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0191506141 |
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