title: The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
author: Robert Crease
description: &#8220;Science and scientists are so often seen as cold and emotionless, but they are passionately drawn to beauty and truth, no less intensely than artists or poets. One can open this book anywhere and get a sense of this special passion&#8212;each chapter has its own special feel and delectations, and all of them bring out that beauty, for scientists, is no less important than truth, and that one can be ravished by an experiment no less than by a work of art.&#8221;<br><b>&#8212;Oliver Sacks</b><br><br>&#8220;In an era in which the public perceives science as a string of ethereal ideas conjured up by cute men in tweed jackets sitting in overstuffed leather chairs in the faculty lounge, <i>The Prism and the Pendulum</i> creates a refreshing portrait of beauty in science: of men with rough hands polishing inclined planes, peering into wells, climbing towers, or sitting in the dark looking for the one spark in eight thousand that would ignite the nuclear age. In this readable, narrative-driven book, we meet scientists wresting the truth from nature by confronting her on a physical, visceral level. Robert Crease, with this volume, destroys and corrects the &#8216;damn good stories&#8217; commonly used to teach science, and places himself among our most important science historians and philosophers.&#8221;<br><b>&#8212;Dick Teresi,</b> author of <i>Lost Discoveries</i>, coauthor of <i>The God Particle</i>, cofounder of <i>Omni</i><br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  By Regina Scott
   
  Fortune’s Brides Series, Book 4
   
   
  
  © 2018 Regina Lundgren
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  Contents
   
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Chapter Fifteen
  Chapter Sixteen
  Chapter Seventeen
  Chapter Eighteen
  Chapter Nineteen
  Chapter Twenty
  Chapter Twenty-One
  Chapter Twenty-Two
  Chapter Twenty-Three
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