100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs In History By Peter Macinnis
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In a way this book was kind of irritating While the concept is cool take the 100 greatest scientific discoveries inventions and discuss both the paths that led to them as well as what they lead onto the format leaves a LOT to be desired First each item gets maybe 2 3 pages with lots of room for brightly colored pictures some of which bear no obvious relation to the subject So for some of the complex interactions the reader is left with way questions than they started with Which could be cool IF the reader were reading the book in front of a computer connected to wikipedia 24 7 I was not. 100 Discoveries history vault Secondly and in NO way is this a slight on the author the 100 chosen topics were not MY 100 most important discoveries by a long shot Some may have lead to really important things but others were overshadowed by their descendants which then receive only nominal mentions However included in the back of the book are another 100 which didn t quite make the cut and most of my selections were there at least showing that they had been considered before being dropped which is better than nothing i suppose 9781741961423 I wrote it so my opinion would be biased I will however add one note of explanation the publisher wanted 100 to fit a common format I chose the most enabling discoveries the ones like glass and x rays that allowed other advances Glass gave us lenses the thermometer and lab glassware but it also allowed us to make the cathode ray tube which was essential to generating x rays that in turn allowed us to use x ray diffraction to determine the total number of elements the structure of DNA and much 9781741961423 It s fine Essentially it was a long form Buzzfeed article counting down great discoveries of human history A good read for a twelve or thirteen year old to get them interested in science and technology 9781741961423
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