This month's free title from the University of Chicago Press is
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, by Philip Ball. The author is well-enough known as a science popularizer that I was surprised not to find any of his titles in my electronic collection; I know I've read his articles.
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Curiosity emerges as a first-rate popular account of how science in Europe began. Accurate, witty, and reliable, the book ably shows modern readers how we got to be modern. Philip Ball adeptly sketches the virtuoso sensibility: a combination of intellectual nosiness and experimental dexterity plus the belief that, as he writes, ‘to understand everything, you could start from anywhere.’—Wall Street Journal
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