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«Mentre ero in volo sul Pacifico e guardavo pigramente dal finestrino l'oceano illuminato dalla luna, mi si presentò alla mente, con una forza piuttosto inquietante, la consapevolezza di non sapere nulla dell'unico pianeta sul quale mi sarebbe mai capitato di vivere.»
Quanto è grande, infatti, il nostro pianeta? Come è fatto? Quali leggi ne governano il moto, la natura e i fenomeni? Per colmare questa lacuna, Bill Bryson decide di partire per un viaggio molto diverso da quelli che ci ha raccontato nei suoi libri: un viaggio nel mondo del sapere scientifico, per narrarci la storia dell'universo e farci comprendere, senza inutili difficoltà, la teoria della relatività e le sue conseguenze, i segreti del Big Bang, le leggi dell'evoluzionismo, la comparsa dell'uomo sulla terra, la doppia elica del DNA e molto altro, con una scrittura sempre ironica, e senza mai rinunciare al gusto dell'aneddoto e della battuta.
- ISBN: 885024858X
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 594
- Data di uscita: 23-11-2017
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A Short History of Goodreads Surveys show that nearly 40% of all Americans believe the history of literature started in 2007, when Amazon sold the first Kindle; indeed, Amazon Fundamentalists hold it as an article of faith that Jeff Bezos actually wrote all the world's e-books over a period of six da Leggi tutto
Good grief if I had even one textbook half this enthralling in high school, who knows what kind of impassioned -ologist I would have grown up to be. I hereby petition Bryson to re-write all curriculum on behalf of the history of the world. I would run across things half-remembered from midterms and s Leggi tutto
Okay, so here's my Bill Bryson story. I was in The Gladstone, a public house not too far from this very keyboard, with my friend Yvonne, who will remain nameless. We had been imbibing more than freely. A guy approached our table and asked me in a sly surreptitious manner if I was him. Him who? Was I Leggi tutto
What I learned from this book (in no particular order) 1. Phosphor was accidentally discovered when a scientist tried to turn human urine into gold. The similarity in color seemed to have been a factor in his conviction that this was possible. Like, duh. I’m no scientist, but shouldn’t it be obvious Leggi tutto
يحكى أن يهوديا قرر الذهاب إلى دمياط للتجارة و حينما وصل إليها أراد اختبار أهلها قبل أن يبدأ مشروعه فأشار للصبى الذى أستأجره ليكون دليلا لهخذ هذا القرش فاشتر لنا غداء و شراب و حلوى و لا تنسى طعام للحمار و شيئا أتسلى به فى طريقىكان القرش لا يشترى بالكاد وجبة طعام لشخص واحد الا ان الشاب الدمياطى - و ال Leggi tutto
It's easy to nitpick A Short History of Nearly Everything . Bryson, by his own cheerful admission anything but a scientist, makes a fair number of mistakes. He says that all living creatures contain hox genes; he omits Alexander Friedmann and George Gamow from his description of how the Big Bang theo Leggi tutto
Big bois. Long bois. Extra extra page bois.Everyone's heard of them. The Libraries are full of them. But are they worth it?Click the link for my video review of the big bois in my life. The Written Review: Want a whirlwind worldwide romance adventure minus the romance? This is the book for you. This b Leggi tutto
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