Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing. - Review - book review

Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing. Edited by Edmund Blair Bolles. W.H. Freeman, New York. 1999. ISBN 0-7167-3693-4. 485 pp. Softcover. $16.95. A treasury scoured from the literature of science of great explanatory writing in astronomy, biology chemistry, geology, physics, and psychology by scientists over the millennia: Lucretius, GAlileo, Darwin, Huxley, Maxwell, Mach, Einstein, Eddington, Haldane, Jeans, Carson, Eiseley, Asimov, Feynman, Sagan, and Gould are just a few of the writers here anthologized.

The earliest is Herodotus (444 B.C., a geological analysis of the creation of Egypt); the most recent is George Smoot's "Looking for the Big Bang." Organized into three sections, The Scientific Imagination Examined, The Scientific Imagination in Action, and Style in the Scientific Imagination.

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