Found 23 results for "John Noble Wilford"
The mapmakers
by John Noble Wilford
One hot afternoon in a June not long ago, our helicopter circled the stark pinnacle of Dana Butte.
Cosmic Dispatches
by John Noble Wilford
On the clearest of nights, the unaided human eye can see only a few thousand stars and, at most, five other planets.
An essay on man
by Alexander Pope
HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my lord Bacon's expression) came home to...
Moriæ Encomium
by Desiderius Erasmus
HOW SLIGHTLY SOEVER I am esteemed in the common vogue of the world (for I well know how disingenuously Folly is decried,...
The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the salo...
The Best American Science Writing 2004
by Dava Sobel, Jesse Cohen
The television in the dead man's room stays on all night.
