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themulhern: Both books stick to the science adventure, and go rather light on the actual science. "Chasing Venus" is about the decade long effort to calculate the value of the astronomical unit; Bryson's book is more shallow and broad.
erik_galicki: Weisskopf is more concise, more cohesive, and less anecdotal than Bryson. I consider Weisskopf a more enlightening but less entertaining alternate.
Noisy: If you find Bryson too lightweight, then the next step is to Gribbin. Gribbin goes all the way from the smallest scale (sub-atomic particles) to the largest (the universe).
libro di divulgazione scientifica dello scrittore Bill Bryson che parla di diverse aree della scienza in un linguaggio semplice. È stato il libro di divulgazione scientifica più venduto in Inghilterra nel 2005, con oltre 300.000 copie.[1]
Breve storia di (quasi) tutto si discosta dal genere dei libri da viaggio per cui Bryson è popolare. In esso vengono descritte scienze generali come chimica, paleontologia, astronomia, antropologia e fisica delle particelle. In questo libro egli descrive quanto accaduto dal Big Bang fino alla scoperta della meccanica quantistica, passando per evoluzione e geologia, raccontando la storia delle scienze attraverso le storie personali degli scienziati protagonisti delle più famose scoperte, come Edwin Hubble, Isaac Newton e Albert Einstein.
Molto avvincente e interessante, uno dei migliori libri che abbia letto recentemente. Stimola la curiosità e induce ad approfondire diversi argomenti, di cui si sa magari già qualcosa dagli studi scolastici. È davvero incredibile come ogni capitolo contenga molte nozioni e curiosità su fatti, scoperte, false convinzioni, personaggi storici e scienziati con caratteri e attitudini così diverse. Consigliato a tutti. ( )
The more I read of ''A Short History of Nearly Everything,'' the more I was convinced that Bryson had achieved exactly what he'd set out to do, and, moreover, that he'd done it in stylish, efficient, colloquial and stunningly accurate prose.
"Una breve historia de casi todo" explica como ha evolucionado el mundo para acabar siendo lo que es hoy. Explica cualquier aspecto de nuestro universo, desde el más recóndito al más conocido.
The book's underlying strength lies in the fact that Bryson knows what it's like to find science dull or inscrutable. Unlike scientists who turn their hand to popular writing, he can claim to have spent the vast majority of his life to date knowing very little about how the universe works.
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The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: 'I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God.' ''Don't you think God knows the facts?" Bethe asked. 'Yes,' said Szilard. 'He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts.' — Hans Christian von Baeyer, Taming the Atom
Dedica
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To Meghan and Chris. Welcome.
Incipit
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No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.
Citazioni
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They're all in the same plane. They're all going around in the same direction. . . .It's perfect, you know. It's gorgeous. It's almost uncanny. - Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy describing the solar system
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; / God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. - Alexander Pope
A physicist is the atoms' way of thinking about atoms. - Anonymous
The history of any one part of the Earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror. - British geologist Derek V. Ager
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming. - Freeman Dyson
Descended from the apes! My dear, let us hope that it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known. - Remark attributed to the wife of the Bishop of Worcester after Darwin's theory of evolution was explained to her
I had a dream, which was not all / a dream. / The bright sun was extinguish'd, / and the stars / Did wander . . . - Byron, "Darkness"
Because we can't see into the Earth, we have to use other interesting techniques, which mostly involve reading waves as they travel through the interior, to find out what is there. We know a little bit about the mantle from what are known as kimberlite pipes, where diamonds are formed. What happens is that deep in the Earth there is an explosion that fires, in effect, a cannonball of magma to the surface at supersonic speeds. It is a totally random event. A kimberlite pipe could explode in your back garden as you read this. Because they come up from such depths - up to 200 kilometres down - kimberlite pipes bring up all kinds of things not normally found on or near the surface: a rock called Peridotite, crystals of olivine and - just occasionally, in about one pipe in a hundred - diamonds. Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite. Only occasionally does a hunk of it shoot up at just the right speed and cool down with the necessary swiftness to become a diamond. It was such a pipe that made South Africa the most productive diamond-mining country in the world, but there may be others even bigger that we don't know about. Geologists know that somewhere in the vicinity of northeastern Indiana there is evidence of a pipe or group of pipes that may be truly colossal. Diamonds up to 20 carats or more have been found at scattered sites throughout the region. But no-one has ever found the source. As John McPhee notes, it may be buried under glacially deposited soil, like the Manson crater in Iowa, or under the Great Lakes. (page 271)
As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not suprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. (page 396)
Ultime parole
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And that, almost certainly, will require a good deal more than lucky breaks.
Breve storia di (quasi) tutto si discosta dal genere dei libri da viaggio per cui Bryson è popolare. In esso vengono descritte scienze generali come chimica, paleontologia, astronomia, antropologia e fisica delle particelle. In questo libro egli descrive quanto accaduto dal Big Bang fino alla scoperta della meccanica quantistica, passando per evoluzione e geologia, raccontando la storia delle scienze attraverso le storie personali degli scienziati protagonisti delle più famose scoperte, come Edwin Hubble, Isaac Newton e Albert Einstein.