Philip Ball művei

Alchemy - An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alc...

Beyond Weird

'A clear and deeply researched account of what's known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about what they might really me...

Bright Earth - Art and The Invention of Color

Bright Earth - The Invention of Colour

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have ...

Critical Mass (How one thing leads to another)

Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern...

Die Elemente - Entdeckung und Geschichte der Grundstoffe

Eine atemberaubende visuelle Reise zu den chemischen Bausteinen unseres Universums! Gold, Kupfer, Zinn und Silber - hinter jedem Element ...

Experimente - Versuch und Irrtum in der Wissenschaft

Eine spannende Reise durch die Welt der experimentellen Naturwissenschaft. Vom Foucaultschen Pendel bis zum DNA-Origami. Erfolgsautor Phi...

Flow. Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts

From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see sim...

H2O: A Biography of Water

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water...

How Life Works - A User's Guide to the New Biology

'An essential primer on humanity's ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' - Ad...

Patterns in Nature - Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through ...

The Man Who Broke Reality - Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

Danish physicist Niels Bohr was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his revolutio...

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why...

The Water Kingdom - A Secret of China

Universe of Stone - Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind