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Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 1 de mayo de 2024
Interesting, beautiful book. Great description and price by the seller!
JamesC
Comentado en el Reino Unido el 17 de febrero de 2024
One of the best popular science books I have read. A very enjoyable, beautifully illustrated, history of scientific writing.
Reader-718
Comentado en el Reino Unido el 1 de noviembre de 2024
Buy the whole series, already!
C. Miller
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 4 de septiembre de 2021
The book arrived early and is as described .. maybe even better! Would definitely order from this seller again!
Jojoleb
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 19 de diciembre de 2019
Scientifica Historica, by Brian Clegg, is a very interesting book that examines the history of science by presenting some of the most influential science books of the times.Clegg gives you a survey of books and authors from the ancient world, though the renaissance, to the modern classical, on to post-classical, and finally modern times ('the next generation'). He starts with the Ishango Bone (20,000 to 18,000 BCE) and Egyptian Hieroglyphics and ends with Sabine Hossenfelder's Lost Math (2018). And you will find just about everything in between.Although this is not always an easy read, this has major interest for anyone interested in the history of science itself. There is also a lot here about the history of publishing. From scrolls to copyists to Gutenberg's printing press, to the modern era, a lot of what did or didn't get published depended on cost, availability, or sensibility.Of course, with such an expansive subject (e.g. 'science') and wide range of time, you will almost certainly think of books that were omitted. (For me, the most glaring omission would be Homer Smith's From Fish to Philosopher.) Additionally, the topic of 'science books' itself is a little vague. You might wonder how Alvin Toffler's Future Shock got into the same book as Euclid's Elements, Newton's Principia, or Hawkening's a Brief History of Time.That said, in spite of the wide-scope of the book, Clegg is able to tie together Assyrian clay tablets with Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Somehow, he weaves together a narrative that fits it all together.The only glaring error that I noted was that the cover of the Hebrew version of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was printed upside down.The highlight of the book are the many color plates. They are all printed on 9 1/2" x 7 3/4" matte stock. They might have been better served on glossy paper and--although this is already a large format book--it might have been better served being an even more over-sized coffee table book.All-in-all an excellent book for anyone interested in the history of science. Recommended.
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