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«Mentre ero in volo sul Pacifico e guardavo pigramente dal finestrino l'oceano illuminato dalla luna, mi si presentò alla mente, con una forza piuttosto inquietante, la consapevolezza di non sapere nulla dell'unico pianeta sul quale mi sarebbe mai capitato di vivere.» Quanto è grande, infatti, il nostro pianeta? Come è fatto? Quali leggi ne governano il moto, la natura e i fenomeni? Per colmare questa lacuna, Bill Bryson decide di partire per un viaggio molto diverso da quelli che ci ha raccontato nei suoi libri: un viaggio nel mondo del sapere scientifico, per narrarci la storia dell'universo e farci comprendere, senza inutili difficoltà, la teoria della relatività e le sue conseguenze, i segreti del Big Bang, le leggi dell'evoluzionismo, la comparsa dell'uomo sulla terra, la doppia elica del DNA e molto altro. Con una scrittura sempre ironica, e senza mai rinunciare al gusto dell'aneddoto e della battuta, Bryson ci fa incontrare le personalità che hanno fatto e stanno facendo la storia della scienza, lasciandoci alla fine la sensazione di conoscere meglio il mondo in cui viviamo, ma anche quella, piacevolissima, di avere letto un «romanzo» ricco di sorprese e curiosità.
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Science, Popular works, Ciencia, Obras populares, Science, popular works, Obras de divulgacio n., Natuurwetenschappen, Sciences, Ouvrages de vulgarisation, Wetenschapsbeoefening, Origin, Life, Humor, Travel, Philosophy, Culture, Nonfiction, Open Library Staff Picks, Human beings, popular science, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, 30.01 history of the exact sciences, Einführung, Naturwissenschaften, Wetenschapsfilosofie, Natuurlijke historie, Einfu hrung, Large type books, Allgemeinwissen, Cosmology, Geology. Earth sciences, Science--popular works, Q162 .b88 2003, Q162 b916s 2003, 500, Science - general & miscellaneous, History & philosophy of science, Civilization - historyPlaces
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies.
A Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics. In it, he explores time from the Big Bang to the discovery of quantum mechanics, via evolution and geology.
Bill Bryson wrote this book because he was dissatisfied with his scientific knowledge—that was, not much at all. He writes that science was a distant, unexplained subject at school. Textbooks and teachers alike did not ignite the passion for knowledge in him, mainly because they never delved in the whys, hows, and whens.
The ebook can be found elsewhere on the web at:
http://www.huzheng.org/bookstore/AShortHistoryofNearlyEverything.pdf
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