GREATEST INVENTIONS OF THE PAST 2000 YEARS by Brockman, John ISBN 0753811286

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Contents 1 GREATEST INVENTIONS OF THE PAST 2000 YEARS 1.1 Book Details 1.1.1 Title 1.1.2 Author 1.1.3 ISBN 1.1.4 Published 1.1.5 Publisher 1.1.6 Binding 1.1.7 Retail Price 1.1.8 Typical Price Online 2 Buy Book Online

[edit] GREATEST INVENTIONS OF THE PAST 2000 YEARS

John Brockman challenged the array of scientists that he hosts on his website by asking: 'What is the most important invention of the past two thousand years?'. This book provides a showcase for more than a hundred of their responses, which are as varied as the participants themselves.

The editor and literary agent John Brockman recently challenged the salon of scientists that he hosts on his website by asking: 'What is the most important invention of the past two thousand years?' Not content to be merely right, his contributors vied for originality, provocativeness and intellectual panache. This book provides a showcase for more than a hundred of their responses, which are as varied, and in some cases strange, as the participants themselves. Gutenberg's printing press wins the most endorsements and passing nods. But the neuroscientist Colin Blakemore and others argue for the birth-control pill. The biologist Richard Dawkins nominates the spectroscope. The physicist Freeman Dyson makes a case for hay. John Maddox, the former editor of Nature, favours the calculus.

[edit] Book Details

[edit] Title

GREATEST INVENTIONS OF THE PAST 2000 YEARS

[edit] Author

Brockman, John

[edit] ISBN

0753811286

[edit] Published

01/03/2001

[edit] Publisher

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

[edit] Binding

paperback (B format)

[edit] Retail Price

7.99 (GBP)

[edit] Typical Price Online

7.99 (GBP)

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