by Bill Bryson
Bryson makes the history of science wildly entertaining, covering everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. His gift is turning impossibly complex discoveries into stories that feel personal and urgent.
In this collection, A Short History of Nearly Everything references 1 other book and is cited by 4 other books.
It draws on The Origin of Species.
It’s picked up by The Body: A Guide for Occupants, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void and 1 others.
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Bryson devotes chapter to Darwin's singular notion.
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Bryson's book is pitched as the biological companion to his own A Short History of Nearly Everything, explicitly turning the same 'amateur science tour' approach inward to the human body.
Kean cites Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything as a model for narrating scientific history through human anecdotes, and draws specific stories from its chemistry chapters.
Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is cited as a touchstone for Roach's strategy of rendering technical science through firsthand, oddball investigation.
Shares Bryson's gift for making scientific discovery accessible and entertaining, applied to the overlooked world of plant science
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