A Short History of Nearly Everything
von Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
von Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?
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Rezension von Zo zA great synopsis about the history of earth and modern science. It really highlights how lucky we are and how much humans have learned about the world around us. I studied Biology in college and I think he does a good job of simplifying information for the reader. It is a very western perspective, so i would’ve like to see discoveries and developments in Asia and the America’s. This was published in 2003, and now I’m super curious about what he would’ve written about the past 20 years.