10 Recommended popular science books
First, "the magic of nature"
Richard. Dawkins, Dave? Illustrations by McKeen, translated by Li Yong, Hunan Science and Technology Press.
? Magic? There are many kinds. Before the scientific method appeared, our ancestors used supernatural demons to explain the world. The ancient Egyptians said that the goddess Noot devoured the sun before it darkened. Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge between God and the earth. Japanese guess that the world was carried by a giant catfish, and when it wagged its tail, an earthquake happened. These are all magical stories. But there is also a kind of magic, which exists in our joy in finding the real answers to these questions, and that is the magic of nature and science.
Richard's The Magic of Nature? Dawkins's Magic of Nature combines clear thought experiments, dazzling illustrations and strange facts to explain strange and colorful natural phenomena. What is matter made of? How big is the universe? Why is the earth like a piecemeal puzzle? How did the tsunami happen? Why are there so many animals and plants? Who was the first person? This is a fascinating story of graphic reasoning, which not only seeks clues from various disciplines, but also enables readers to learn to think like scientists.
Second, the boy's adventure book (6 volumes)
Kang En? Goolden, [England] Hal? I Goolden was edited by the editorial board of Adventures of Boys and published by Guangxi Science and Technology Publishing House.
Adventures of Boys is a book from 8 to 80 years old? Boy? Everyone needs an adventure book, which not only has interesting things to attract children, but also touches the homesickness of adults. Let you learn how to build a house, how to polish flint into an arrow, how to make invisible ink and how to make paper into water. Bomb? How can we make the best paper plane in the world, or even a scooter? Tell you what a good boy should have: curiosity, courage, courtesy, and courage to accept challenges. However, these qualities seem to have drifted away from contemporary boys. People can't help thinking deeply: how can we train boys to be real men?
Three. Science in the Story (Volume 1 1)
Guo Jing, editor-in-chief, Electronic Industry Press, this series was selected as the National Excellent Popular Science Works of the Ministry of Science and Technology in 20 14 and the Silver Award for Excellent Popular Science Works of the Third China Popular Science Writers Association.
Mention? Science? Many people may think that it is the patent of scientists, and ordinary people can only? Out of reach? . In fact, science is not inscrutable. Science has penetrated into our daily life and is influencing and changing our life all the time. Whether looking up at the starry sky, overlooking the earth under our feet or observing the objects around us at close range, we can find that scientific principles are everywhere. Even some common phenomena often contain profound scientific knowledge. This book will take you to discover the scientific mysteries around you.
Fourth, Yukawa Hideki Collection
[Japan] Yukawa Hideki, translated by Yu Kang, Yilin Publishing House
This collection includes four books: Invisible to the naked eye, Modern Science and Man, The Creation of Man and The Traveler: A Physicist's Memory. These four books are all from 1949 Nobel Prize winner in physics, Hideki Yukawa. The scientist grew up in an ordinary Japanese cultural family, was deeply influenced by China culture, and loved China ancient books. Among all the physicists who won the Nobel Prize, we seldom have the opportunity to deeply understand how people who have experienced the influence of oriental culture see the world. Although we sometimes introduce our research on mesons in the four books, most of them are insights and epiphanies about life.
5. Primary school students' theory of relativity (4 volumes)
[Japan] River Plain Fu, "Beiyuan Cuisine" Lizi Painting [Japan], translated by Li Xiufen of Mix, Beijing Science and Technology Press.
Academician Wu Yueliang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences approved that big science should start from primary school! Including the laws of the moon and apples, slow time, the mystery of black holes and Einstein's dreams. What is the true face of light? What is time? Everyone has different time? The faster you move, the slower time passes? Traveling to the universe can keep people young? Is there really a black hole in the universe? Do black holes really swallow everything up? What are the strange properties of mysterious black holes? Relativity will unveil its mystery for you.
6. Journey of Discovery: Ten Natural Adventures in History
Tony? Rice, translated by Lin Jieying, Commercial Press.
The most famous explorers, scientists and artists in the history of the world jointly interpret fascinating natural history adventure stories. A 300-year-old just visiting will take you to explore unknown areas and travel around the world with great historical figures!
This book focuses on the most interesting and important natural science exploration trips in the past 300 years, focusing on the art and video materials collected during the voyage. Every trip has accumulated an extremely important specimen collection and produced important new scientific knowledge. Many museum collections in the book are also available for the first time, which is definitely worthy of readers' careful appreciation. Scientists and historians of all ages are deeply fascinated by these stories and images, and get pleasure from reading them. If you have a chance to travel around the world, you'd better take this book and have a look around in the car or plane. Maybe it will give you new insights and enlightenment.
Seven. 3D printing and the future of printing
Editor of China Mechanical Engineering Society and China Science and Technology Press.
"3D Printing: Printing the Future" introduces that additive manufacturing (3D printing) technology has changed the traditional mode of removing materials and directly manufacturing products by stacking materials layer by layer, thus bringing about changes in manufacturing technology and production methods. Additive manufacturing technology, as a highly integrated product of information technology and manufacturing technology, has only been developed for more than 20 years, but it has been applied to aerospace, biomedicine, national defense and military industry, engineering education, new product development and other fields. Additive manufacturing, as a new technology, especially a new technology different from the traditional mode of production, has naturally attracted great attention from the industry, especially its connection with the third industrial revolution, which has become a hot spot of widespread concern in recent years.
Eight, "the beauty of mathematics"
Wu Jun, People's Posts and Telecommunications Press.
A few years ago, the beauty of mathematics? This series of articles was first published on Google Blackboard, which received millions of hits and was highly praised by readers. The reader said, have you seen it? The beauty of mathematics? Only then did I find that the mathematical knowledge I learned in college, such as Markov chain, matrix calculation and even cosine function, was so kind and vivid, and it was so interesting to discover natural language and information processing. The purpose of this book is to make the profound mathematical principles more popular and understandable, so that non-professional readers can also appreciate the charm of mathematics. What readers learn through concrete examples is how to simplify the way of thinking, how to solve engineering problems with mathematics, and how to think and innovate without thinking.
Nine, "The Legend of the Heart"
Li Qingchen, Tsinghua University Publishing House.
The heart was once a forbidden area that was hard to reach with a scalpel, and people with heart damage often had only one dead end. However, for more than 60 years, human attempts to challenge this taboo have never stopped, and the broken heart has finally ushered in the hope of rebirth. Li Qingchen, a surgeon, reveals to readers all kinds of unknown details in this unique historical process with calm and delicate brushstrokes. A group of pioneers who fought to the death resolutely walked into the thorns, saved thousands of lives, opened up a way for those who were doomed to die, and created heart surgery from scratch.
X. Interesting science (8 volumes)
Winston, translated by Jin Rong, Science Popularization Press.
Is science unattainable? Is scientific inquiry mysterious and boring? Is science education? With a straight face? Really? No! Many scientists believe that scientific research is a process full of happiness. In a short space, the series "Interesting Science" shows a vivid and interesting scientific world to young readers. In this set of books, science is not only tangible, but also can experience the truth by doing, thus improving our scientific literacy.