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A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages
- Sales Rank: #241142 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Yale University Press
- Published on: 2013-09-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.49" h x .75" w x 5.49" l, .71 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
From Booklist
Following A Little History of the World, by E. H. Gombrich (2005), which was a translation of a 1935 German original, Yale has replicated that book’s approach in titles about language, philosophy, and now, science. In 40 short chapters adorned with whimsical illustrations in woodcut style, Bynum proceeds from counting to cosmology. A professor of medicine, Bynum provides numerous glimpses into the advancement of human health through pr�cis of particular theories and discoveries associated with famous names, starting with Hippocrates and Galen, including such others as Paracelsus and William Harvey, and finishing with Louis Pasteur and modern antibiotic pharaceuticals. Noting biographical details of the scientists mentioned, such as the solitary personality of Isaac Newton, Bynum connects their characters to whatever scientific mystery piqued their curiosity. In the process, he often approaches a topic by extrapolating from a common experience, as from bird-watching to dinosaurs. A super-accessible introduction to science. --Gilbert Taylor
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“[An] entertaining history . . . for curious teen and adult readers.”—Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly)
“A super-accessible introduction to science.”—Booklist (Booklist)
“Bynum’s lively narrative…certainly delivers on his opening line: “Science is special.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review (Kirkus)
"Beginning with the Babylonians and ending with the World Wide Web, Bynum manages to squeeze in nearly every essential scientific idea and discovery while also discussing most major disciplines… I happily confess I learned a lot."—Andrew Robinson, New Scientist (Andrew Robinson New Scientist 2012-11-03)
"One advantage of a brief history is that this impressive roll of modern achievements unfolds while the leaps of prior centuries are still fresh in mind. That juxtaposition of what we know now verses what we knew then is breathtaking to contemplate. In Mr Bynum’s telling, a little history goes a long way."—Alan Hirshfeld, The Wall Street Journal (Alan Hirshfeld The Wall Street Journal 2012-12-14)
'I wish there had been such a book when I was a child. Bill Bynum's Little History of Science may be short but it tells a grand story: all of science lightly placed in ever-changing historical and philosophical contexts, but presented in a single arc from Empedocles to Tim Berners-Lee, Galen to Thomas Hunt Morgan, alchemy to insulin, the steam engine to the particle accelerator. It is a book I will be recommending for many years to come.'—Christopher Potter, author of You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
(Christopher Potter)
'Well done Bill Bynum, a master of the scientific ordinance from the Big Bang to the Digital Age.'—David Bellamy
(David Bellamy)
'Science is not a dry recitation of data; it's thousands of years of questions that people have posed about the universe. In A Little History of Science, William Bynum ably distills this human saga into a delightfully clear tale. It may be little, but it manages to find room for galaxies, computers, chemistry, evolution and much more.'—Carl Zimmer, author of A Planet of Viruses
(Carl Zimmer)
"Small, but perfectly formed. In this�little history, Bill Bynum has done a splendid job of weaving all the material into a narrative that is easy to understand. You will not find a better summary of the history of science."—Bernard Wood, author of Human Evolution:�A�Very Short Introduction (Bernard Wood)
‘This freshest entry in Yale’s youngster-friendly Little History series covers science from Babylonian astronomy to the Human Genome Project and the Higgs Boson, in a series of lucid short chapters on telescopes, gases, engines, planetary orbits, cells, magnetism, pneumatic chemistry, continental drift and so forth. The author is particularly interesting on the history of medicine (his own field) … and he shows a gentle tolerant humour throughout.’ —Steven Poole, The Guardian (Steven Poole The Guardian)
"This is a thoughtful, elegantly presented volume with the younger reader in mind, although it’s an inspiring reminder to anyone of our extraordinary journey from ignorance to knowledge… Each chapter is headed with a beautifully simple, monochrome block-print style illustration that encapsulates its themes."—Dallas Campbell, BBC Focus (Dallas Campbell BBC Focus 2013-01-01)
“A wonderful book to keep on the shelf and revisit over time.”—PopMatters� (PopMatters)
"This interesting book traces the history of science in easy-to-consume bites, from the earliest recorded anatomical, mathematical and medical theories through to the most up-to-date references to the Higgs boson and the latest hypothesis on string theory. They’re all made readable for the inquisitive non-scientists among us." Good Reading. (Good Reading 2013-06-01)
“Yale’s youngster-friendly Little History series continues with science from Babylonian astronomy to the Higgs boson particle in a series of lucid short chapters on telescopes, gases, engines, plantetary orbits, cells, magnetism, pneumatic chemistry, continental drift, and so forth . . .��[Bynum] takes a sly pleasure in pointing out that famous scientists have been deeply religious, and shows a gentle, tolerant humour throughout.”—Steven Poole, The Guardian (Steven Poole Guardian 2013-08-24)
�“A Little History of Science is an entertaining read that will provide a good grounding in the subject for older children.”—John Harding, Daily Mail (John Harding Daily Mail 2013-08-30)
“The book is delightfully illustrated and is written in an engaging style. . .It would make a great present for those turned off by double physics, or an entertaining read for the boffin.”—The Good Book Guide (Good Book Guide 2013-11-01)
�“Bynum’s history of science is simple, lucid and accessible. There isn’t a single difficult sentence. Reading it could foster an enthusiasm for scientific endeavour in a young reader. . .There is an underlying theme in this gentle treatise: the need for scientists to persevere, to co-operate, to believe in the common good and to see further, in Isaac Newton’s words, by ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’.”—Tom Moriarty, Irish Times (Tom Moriarty Irish Times 2013-10-12)
From the Author
A Conversation with William Bynum
Q: Why did you write this book?
A: I was charmed by Gombrich's Little History of the World and thought I would like to do something like it for my grandchildren Alex and Peter. I used to teach the history of science and thought what a wonderful story it could make, to start at the beginning with the stargazers in Babylon and come up to the computer age of today. People from time immemorial, in all cultures, have thought about such things as why the sun rises and sets, how a hen's egg develops into a new chick, and why we fall ill and might be made well.
Q: What are the great turning points—for you—in the history of science?
A: The invention of the telescope and the microscope, which allowed people to do science on things that you couldn't even see with your naked eye.
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, which changed the way we see the living world and offered us the chance to delve into the secrets of life. Einstein's theories of relativity, which opened up the universe to new interpretations.
The coming of the modern computer, which enabled scientists to tackle questions in fields as diverse as the human genome and climate change that would have been impossible a couple of generations ago.
Q: What are the major themes of your book?
A: My book has only one theme: science as a human endeavor to understand the world. The history of science is a journey through time, illuminated on the way by great thinkers, adept experimenters, and people of enlarged curiosity. Understanding that journey tells us something about who we are as human beings.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Loved so much, Had to OWN
By karrots
I read the other reviews and your love or hatred of this book depends entirely it seems on your expectations and background. So, I'm an educated adult who went the language route and avoided all serious math and science college classes, but I love learning. So I picked up A Little History of Science at the library and LOVED it. This is not an in-depth look at the sciences, but a broad historical background that shows how modern science has come to be...by standing on the shoulders of those who came before.
What I loved about this book is that it provides a historical context for those famous names and scientific ideas/concepts and gives them a frame of reference by tying them together. By presenting these famous names with interesting anecdotes or details about their life or work, and relating them to others who had opposing ideas/theories/philosophies or actually used the ideas and built upon them, this book is a perfect jumping off point for further investigation. For example, I really loved the Engines and Energy chapter and Bright Sparks because it explained a couple of concepts for me that I've never understood (like how engines work and how electricity and magnetism are related). Also, it introduced me to people I'm going to read more about because this book literally only touches on them.
I'm going to have my 6th grader read this book next, because as another reviewer noted, it is written in a really accessible way. For those of you with science/political/religious issues, I should warn you that the author does make the occasional gentle editorial side-note about global warming, animal extinction, homosexual tolerance, and (as shown in the chapter list below) has chapters on the big bang, dinosaurs, humans as great-apes, and discusses the age of the earth.
Overall, I would really recommend this book to people (ages 10+) who love to learn and enjoy history but may not have a strong science background.
There are 40 chapters (In the parenthesis are my own very brief summaries of what the chapter is about if not obvious):
1-In the Beginning (Egypt/Babylon), 2-Needles and Numbers (India/China), 3-Atoms and the Void (Greeks/BigThree), 4-The Father of Medicine: Hippocrates, 5-'The Master of Those Who Know':Aristotle, 6-The Emperor's Doctor: Galen, 7-Science in Islam, 8-Out of the Darkness (Middle Ages), 9-Searching for the Philosopher's Stone (alchemy-chemistry), 10-Uncovering the Human Body (Vesalius), 11-Where is the Centre of the Universe? (early astronomy), 12-Leaning Towers and Telescopes: Galileo (astronomy), 13-Round and Round: Harvey (circulation/human body), 14-Knowledge is Power: Bacon and Descartes(attitudes on science), 15-The 'New Chemistry' (Boyle & Hooke), 16-What Goes Up...: Newton, 17-Bright Sparks (electricity & magnetism ... probably my favorite chapter!), 18-The Clockwork Universe (Newtonian-ism across Europe via Voltaire), 19-Ordering the World (classifying plants&animals), 20-Airs and Gases (very interesting), 21-Tiny Pieces of Matter(atoms&elements), 22-Forces, Fields and Magnetism (Faraday & Maxwell), 23-Digging Up Dinosaurs, 24-The History of Our Planet (geology), 25-The Greatest Show on Earth (Darwin), 26-Little Boxes of Life (early microbiology), 27-Coughs, Sneezes and Diseases (Pasteur plus many others-very interesting), 28-Engines and Energy (loved this-converting to mechanical energy), 29-Tabling the Elements (Mendeleev plus others), 30-Into the Atom (nuclear&quantum physics simplified - which I appreciated), 31-Radioactivity (Rontgen,Curies&Manhattan Project), 32-The Game-Changer: Einstein, 33-Moving Continents (plate tectonics), 34-What Do We Inherit? (genes&eugenics), 35-Where Did We Come From? (family of great-apes-findings on early man to neanderthals), 36-Wonder Drugs (development of drugs like penicillin & insulin), 37-Building Blocks (mostly DNA), 38-Reading 'the Book of Life': The Human Genome Project (understanding how DNA/genes works), 39-The Big Bang (Hubble, Gamow, +many/science deals with how, not why) 40-Science in Our Digital Age (computers advancing science).
Hope this helps!
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A Little History of Science - A Review
By Upstate New York Reader
Bynum's book is not an exciting read - rather it is a survey of the people (and some events) that have defined science from its earliest beginnings in Babylon, China, India, etc., through the modern era. The reader gets little of the sense of excitement felt as the ideas contributed by the great men of science built upon each other's discoveries year after year, decade after decade.
I felt as if I was reading an overly long encyclopedia entry. The book provided a glimpse at the people who contributed to various fields of scientific inquiry, but more complete research would be needed to really understand the history of science. For example, as the early history of Chinese science was discussed, I found myself opening up Google to discover more about the Great Chinese Wall and the Grand Canal of China.
As people were mentioned, there was little focus on the actual science. Though the book provided a helpful timeline to explore the history of science, it did little to help the reader see the connections between the milestones that defined its progression. Thus, though the book came from a major university press, I found the writing more suitable for a high school or liberal arts audience than a readership with a more specialized scientific training.
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This review is based on a free electronic copy of this book provided by the publisher for the purpose of creating this review. The opinions expressed are mine alone.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
a little review about a very fine book
By marc lippman
Bynum's concise history is a gem. rather than the usual longitudinal approach to science it seeks to provide a greater understanding of how exactly science ''advances''. Is it the great insight or an accretion of modest advances ? and how does the society in which that those discoveries are made further or retard the pace at which those discoveries are reduced to practice ? this may be a brief discussion but it is highly sophisticated.
As someone who has spent his life attempting to advance medical science this book provided me with a substantially enhanced perspective.
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