The Big Idea: How Breakthroughs Of The Past Shape The Future Hardcover English by National Geographic - 6/Sep/11

National Geographic

From the Pythagorean theorem to DNA's double helix, from the discovery of microscopic life-forms to the theory of relativity-the big ideas of science and technology shape an era's worldview.

1426208103

9781426208102

English

National Geographic Society

6/Sep/11

320

Timothy Ferris is the author of a dozen books, among them Seeing in the Dark, The Whole Shebang, and Coming of Age in the Milky Way, which was translated into 15 languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading books published in the twentieth century. Called "the best popular science writer in the English language" by The Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by The Washington Post, Ferris has received the American Institute of Physics prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his works have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

A fun read for anyone interested in how ideas connect together over time. --whatever.scalzi. "A big, pretty, information-dense book [to get] geeked out about." -Whatever.scalzi