PDF-[EBOOK]-Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern sciencethat its not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission Yet there was a time when curiosity was condemned Neither Pandora nor Eve could resist the dangerous allure of unanswered questions and all knowledge wasnt equalfor millennia it was believed that there were some things we should not try to know In the late sixteenth century this attitude began to change dramatically and in Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything Philip Ball investigates how curiosity first became sanctionedwhen it changed from a vice to a virtue and how it became permissible to ask any and every question about the world Looking closely at the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries Ball vividly brings to life the age when modern science began a time that spans the lives of Galileo and Isaac Newton In this entertaining and illuminating account of the rise of science as we know it Ball tells of scientists both legendary and lesser known from Copernicus and Kepler to Robert Boyle as well as the inventions and technologies that were inspired by curiosity itself such as the telescope and the microscope The socalled Scientific Revolution is often told as a story of great geniuses illuminating the world with flashes of inspiration But Curiosity reveals a more complex story in which the liberationand subsequent tamingof curiosity was linked to magic religion literature travel trade and empire Ball also asks what has become of curiosity today how it functions in science how it is spun and packaged for consumption how well it is being sustained and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may continue to ask Though proverbial wisdom tell us that it was through curiosity that our innocence was lost that has not deterred us Instead it has been completely the contrary today we spend vast sums trying to reconstruct the first instants of creation in particle accelerators out of a pure desire to know Ball refuses to let us take this desire for granted and this book is a perfect homage to such an inquisitive attitude.
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The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob ManningIn the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven\'t found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars Rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.In Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity\'s Chief Engineer, Rob Manning, the project\'s chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts.Manning\'s fascinating personal account--which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists--is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Readers experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of staking careers and reputations on a lander that couldn\'t be tested on Earth, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity. The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob ManningIn the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven\'t found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars Rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.In Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity\'s Chief Engineer, Rob Manning, the project\'s chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts.Manning\'s fascinating personal account--which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists--is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Readers experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of staking careers and reputations on a lander that couldn\'t be tested on Earth, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity. Jordan Litman. . Exploring Curiosity Conference . November 2018. With additional support from. The Nature of Curiosity. Is curiosity and information-seeking best explained by a desire for:. A Longstanding Debate about Why and how Curiosity Motivates Approaching New Information….