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Many famous scientists, including albert einstein, have contributed articles to it. Mild rub wear and marks to board surfaces and edges with crushing to spine ends and minor bumps to corners. Dec 29, 2019 while that was going on i was also hard at work on my first popsci book. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds. Stong 1960 584 pages english pdf rs 21 mb classic book. Navigation menu search help log in, register my amsci select options not present on all pages. The scientific american book of projects for the amateur. Over one million scientific american readers turned to the amateur scientist every month. Scientific american s the amateur scientist index a complete index to the amateur scientist edited by c. Mentioned in the book, incidentally, is albrecht durers magic square, which was featured in a 2012 american scientist article. Live events with scientific american editors and other experts in science and technology. Scientific american informally abbreviated sciam or sometimes sa is an american popular science magazine.
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