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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe GALILEO'S COMMANDMENT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT SCIENCE WRITING edited by Edmund Blair Bolles _W. H. Freeman, $26.95_ A bumper collection

that ranges widely across time and disciplines, from Herodotus on the Nile Valley to Isaac Asimov on death in the laboratory. The editor, who introduces each piece, divides the book into

three parts: an opening section in which scientists try to understand science, a long middle section that shows how the scientific imagination attempts to understand nature, and a third

section in which writers transform scientific efforts into literary achievements. GREAT ESSAYS IN SCIENCE edited by Martin Gardner _OUP, £8.99 (pbk)_ First published in 1957 and later

reissued under the title _The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science_, this anthology aims, in Gardner's words, “to spread before the reader, whether his or her interest in

science be passionate or mild, a sumptuous feast of great writing — absorbing, thought-disturbing pieces that have something important to say about science and say it forcibly and well”.

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