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Nature 447, 30-31 (3 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447030a; Published online 2 May 2007
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BOOK REVIEWED-The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Houghton Mifflin: 2007. 320 pp. $27
Natalie Angier's book The Canon, like many before it, sets out to persuade the public that learning about science can be enjoyable. It focuses on the 'hard' sciences, which here means physics, chemistry, evolutionary and molecular biology, geology and astronomy, together with introductory chapters on thinking scientifically, probability and issues of scale and measurement.
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