In His Own Words

Tag: Science History

  • The Gilded Dinosaur

    The Gilded Dinosaur

    Review: Yawn. Made it 97 dense pages and bailed. The story of two rival paleontologists in the old west racing around Arizona and Colorado trying to snag the best fossils before the other guy. The detail about the campfires and the letters was exhaustive. Way too much. This could be a deep dive article in… Read more

  • A Little History of Science

    A Little History of Science

    Review: What a superb little book. Science and its history explained in a clear and entertaining way. All the way from the Babylonian astronomers to the world wide web. Not a book of trivia, this was a clear and concise journey through the trials, errors, leaps forward, and disastrous steps backward that have created the… Read more