Seeing Further

The most venerable learned society in the world, the Royal Society was founded in 1660 and has continued its work promoting and supporting education and research across the vast range of science. In this celebratory volume, Bill Bryson introduces 20 contributions from distinguished writers and Fellows of the Society illustrating the diversity of its work, including Richard Dawkins on Darwin and natural selection, Ian Stewart on the hidden mathematics that rules the world, and Henry Petroski on 19th-century engineers.