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TITLE: The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery AUTHOR: Graeme Donald DATE PUBLISHED: 2014 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN-13: 9781782430155 ___________________________________ This is a rather short, but interesting, book that takes a look at the history ...
In my review of The Accidental Scientist, I raved about how much I enjoyed the book, but that I had reservations about the way the author's style, no matter how entertaining it was. Turns out those reservations are well founded. In When the Earth was Flat, his penchant for pedantry and generalisat...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. With reservations. I learned three things I didn't know in the first paragraph of the introduction, so needless to say I was off to a ripping good start. (Showing the gaping holes in my knowledge of history I didn't know that 1. Serendip used to be the name of Sri...
Good bits of info on varied topics.However, the author seems to be hell bent on proving that American Indians treated the nature in effect no better than "white man".Recent evidence on the contrary seems to point that "injuns" were remarkably well informed and well equipped when it came to matters o...
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