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If you are expecting the usual bright and breezy bill bryson thing again

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Quite interesting though not the usual bryson book

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Bryson also includes profiles and images of many scientists both prominent and those that should be better known

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So wellwritten that even a dunce can understand iy

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You can never ever go wrong with one of bill brysons books

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One by one the marvelous volumes of arcane lore that kept prospero and his daughter alive are tossed in the drink in a nice touch the last to go is a collection of shakespeare’s plays

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The public arguments that surrounded ben franklin’s lightning rod it was his invention and the thing that made him famous since it allowed man for the first time to attempt to control a force of nature one long associated with the wrath of the gods no less were in no way different from the public scientific debates we are familiar with today and for that matter i don’t think the lightning rod debates have yet been settled to everyone’s satisfaction

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But then gödel thought that husserl had overcome kant’s objection but husserl’s writing is so murky that even a guy with the smarts of gödel couldn’t be sure that he had completely figured out what husserl was saying