The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

This science history retells ten laboratory and observational episodes chosen for the elegance of their design, among them Galileo's work with inclined planes, Newton's prism trials, Cavendish on gravity, Joule on heat and work, Michelson on the speed of light, Pavlov's conditioning of dogs, and Millikan's oil-drop measure of charge. Johnson describes apparatus, the question each experiment was built to answer, and the result as it first appeared to the investigator. The pieces are independent case studies. The book is a narrative of method and measurement, not a textbook of formulas and not a full history of physics.

Quarter-bound in yellow buckram with colour image printed blue Modigliani paper covers. Dark blue slipcase.