The Search for Extraterrestrial Life : Essays on Science and Technology (Proceedings of the Royal Institution)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life : Essays on Science and Technology (Proceedings of the Royal Institution)
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Book Description
The Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offer lively discussions of contemporary science for a broad audience. This volume features chapters on the search for extraterrestrial life and on the Martian meteorite at the center of recent speculation about life on Mars. The volume
contains essays based on eight of the talks, and other topics include the future of television, the use of spectroscopy to analyze Medieval manuscripts, the construction of machines with molecule-based memories, and the outlook for the leaning tower in Pisa.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Essays on Science and Technology (Proceedings of the Royal Institution),Peter Day,Oxford University Press, USA,0198504144,Astronomy - General,Extraterrestrial Biology,History,Life on other planets,Physics,Reference,Science,Science/Mathematics,UFOs & Extraterrestrials,Extraterrestrial beings,History, Other | History of Science,Science / General,Science: General Issues
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