Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide - Couverture rigide

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313318220 ISBN 13 : 9780313318221

Editeur : Greenwood Press, 2002

Synopsis

Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? This book is a fun look at what can, and can't, be achieved with current technology in today's laboratory experiments.

Fans of the Jetsons, Star Trek, and Star Wars will learn the facts behind the fiction through entires that describe the scientific inventions and procedures on the screen, and how they differ from the reality. Van Riper shows us who innovators like Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton really were before they were mythologized. He discusses how animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants are portrayed in books and films, and what we really know about animal intelligence. This book lifts the curtain on science fiction, revealing how and where scientific laws have been discarded for the sake of a good plot.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER is a professor in the Department of Social and International Studies at Southern Polytechnic State University. He specializes in the history of science and has written numerous articles on the history of space and aviation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Greenwood Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313318220
• ISBN 13: 9780313318221
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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