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View From a Height

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Authors:: Isaac Asimov (author) and Dean Ellis (covers)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Avon Books
Categories:: Anthology, biology, chemistry, physics and science
Publication year:: 1975
Original publication year:: 1963
ISBN:: 0-380-00356-2
Pages:: 224
Synopsis:: This is an essay collection broken into four parts: Biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. As the subtitle says, it's a brilliant overview of the exciting realms of science. The title invokes the image of viewing science from above, to get an overview of it, and in the introduction Asimov likens science before 1800 to a well-managed orchard. After 1800, it's overgrown and even though there's still an underlying order to it, each wanderer through the orchard only gets to see a small part of it.

"So I have here a collection of essays with little internal unity. They are glimpses, here and there, of the orchard of science, as viewed from a height."
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INTRODUCTION

PART I BIOLOGY

1 That's About the Size of It

2 The Egg and Wee

3 That's Life!

4 Not as We Know It

PART II CHEMISTRY

5 The Element of Perfection

6 The Weighting Game

7 The Evens Have It

PART III PHYSICS

8 Now Hear This!

9 The Ultimate Split of the Second

10 Order! Order!

11 The Modern Demonology

12 The Height of Up

PART IV ASTRONOMY

13 Hot Stuff

14 Recipe for a Planet

15 The Trojan Hearse

16 By Jove!

17 Superficially Speaking

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