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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key…
From internationally bestselling author Simon Winchester, a vibrant history of the collection and dissemination of knowledge.
In Knowing What We Know, Simon Winchester offers a global narrative history of how civilizations have accumulated knowledge. Winchester follows the eccentric ways and by-ways of those who…
’A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times
’An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums…
En vinterkväll 1938 frågar Joseph Needham, en av Cambridges briljantaste och mest excentriska vetenskapsmän, sin kinesiska älskarinna hur hans namn skulle återges på kinesiska. Det blir början på en stor kärlekshistoria. En kärlekshistoria med landet Kina.
Needham kom till Kina första gången 1943 på uppdrag av
den…