Book review: The Short History of Nearly Everything
The Short History of Nearly Everything
by --- Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson presents science and the evolution of science since the dawn of civilization on earth, in an amazingly simpler way. At a time when I was trying to understand the intricacies that were dealt in books like Briefer History of Time (by Stephen Hawking), Quantum Theory can not Hurt You (by Marcus Chown), annacoder suggested this book. I was already feeling bit heavy due to those books. So, deferred considering Bill Bryson for some time.
He describes several aspects of the world around us, like geology, physics, chemicals, minerals, astrophysics, biology, atoms, sub-atomic particles, volcanoes, mountains, oceans, universe and its vastness etc., Once one gets the hang of it, the complexity of the world around us, the astronomical figures in terms of which one has to understand the world, the personalities who literally expended their lives to demystify the world around us, one would become humble, and can't help getting philosophical about several other things around us, which would seem irrelevant in several ways.
by --- Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson presents science and the evolution of science since the dawn of civilization on earth, in an amazingly simpler way. At a time when I was trying to understand the intricacies that were dealt in books like Briefer History of Time (by Stephen Hawking), Quantum Theory can not Hurt You (by Marcus Chown), annacoder suggested this book. I was already feeling bit heavy due to those books. So, deferred considering Bill Bryson for some time.
He describes several aspects of the world around us, like geology, physics, chemicals, minerals, astrophysics, biology, atoms, sub-atomic particles, volcanoes, mountains, oceans, universe and its vastness etc., Once one gets the hang of it, the complexity of the world around us, the astronomical figures in terms of which one has to understand the world, the personalities who literally expended their lives to demystify the world around us, one would become humble, and can't help getting philosophical about several other things around us, which would seem irrelevant in several ways.