The search for extraterrestrial life : essays on science and technology / edited by P. Day.
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- 9780191506147
- 0191506141
- 576.8/39 22
- QB54 .S417 1998eb
- 02.00
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Includes bibliographical references.
The search for extraterrestrial life-and the future of life on Earth / Arnold Wolfendale -- Magellan looks at Venus / Dan McKenzie -- Meteorites: messengers from the past / Monica M. Grady -- Television beyond the Millenium / Will Wyatt -- Molecular information processing: will it happen? / Peter Day -- 'There or thereabouts' / Andrew Wallard -- Pondering on Pisa / John Burland -- An arts/science interface: medieval manuscripts, pigments, and spectroscopy / Robin J.H. Clark -- The Royal Institution.
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This volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from studies of Venus and what they tell us about the Earth, the history and possible future of television, to the interface between art and science - using spectroscopy to analyse the pigments in Medieval manuscripts. Will we be able to build machines with molecular-basedmemories? How do you deal with an historic tower `founded on jelly and slowly inclining to the point at which it is ab.
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