Art of Science

Richard Hamblyn is the author of The Invention of Clouds, which won the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Terra: Tales of the Earth, a study of natural disasters, Data Soliloquies, co-written with the digital artist Martin John Callanan, and The Cloud Book, published in association with the Met Office. He teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College, University of London.

'Relaxed, sunny and domesticated ... the science emerges naturally, and reflectively from our familiar world' Guardian 'The Art of Science showcases not only readable translations of key scientific ideas but situates those ideas in their cultural and historical context' Independent