Circles : Fifty Roundtrips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture... by James Burke
Circles : Fifty Roundtrips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture...

James Burke

Circles : Fifty Roundtrips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture...

James Burke

288 pages hardcover 2000

6 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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