Welcome to The book of science. Come here each week to find poetry and commentary on another milestone of the history of science.

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New this week

1967-2016: The development of a successful Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has let us observe astronomical events by detecting the gravity waves that they generate.

1967-2016

LIGO Infinite sea of spacetime Gravity dilates time Commentary

Richard A. Isaacson, Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, Barry C. Barish astrophysics

New recently

1911-1920	Sagnac effect Experiments Interferometry Commentary	Max von Laue, Georges Sagnac physics
1888	Ampere balance Ampere calculation Balance Commentary	William Thomson, Lord Kelvin electromagnetism
1971-1977	Tau Time dilation / length contraction Bremsstrahlung Symbols Commentary	Yung-su Tsai, Martin Lewis Perl particle physics

Parts of this book

You may jump to some parts of The book of science directly by selecting menu items:

• About, more about this book
• Contents, a table of milestones in the history of science, arranged chronologically
• Elements, tables for the chemical elements
  • Periodic table of the elements
  • Index of elements by year of discovery
  • Index of elements by atomic number
• Scientists, index of scientists, by last name
• Sciences, index of sciences
• Eponymous, index of milestones named after scientists
• Keywords, index of keywords in poems and titles
• Search, where you can search the book by word or phrase

Related works

You may read subsets of The book of science as separate volumes. These generally contain only the last poem on each milestone from the full book:

• Elements of elements of science
• The booklet of science

This web site also includes other works by Tom Sharp and work by other poets.