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"[The book] is somewhat similar to a text for general science at the advanced high school or elementary college level, but infinitely more interesting. As Piel observes, such texts usually have an author named "Dull." Piel is anything but dull. Impressive as this work is, however, it ears the stamp of the times in which Scientific American was born.Piel, Gerard is the author of 'Age of Science What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century', published 2001 under ISBN 9780465057559 and ISBN 0465057551.
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