Circles: 50 Round Trips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture by James Burke

Circles: 50 Round Trips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture

James Burke

286 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction essays history science informative reflective slow-paced
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Unlike Perry Mason, James Burke does not try to assemble watertight (if convoluted) cases. His essays in the history of technology are more like random walks, paeans to serendipity. In The Knowledge Web Burke attempted to duplicate on paper the fe...

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