read seeing further the story of science and the history of the royal society edited by bill bryson despite the large format title bill bryson had little to do with this book which is a dull disjointed collection of loose themed essays on science some polemic, others plain readers digest biographies ranging from scientists in the B movie horror to francis bacon and the origins of plastics
a better book on the rise of science was the sensorum of god the second in the skys dark labyrinth series by stuart clark this was well written and better than most historical novesl telling the interlinkied stories of newton hooke and halley the backdrop of the restoration period to the end of the stuarts was less dramatic and looking forward to the final book where einstein is the main character
the great builders edited by kenneth powell relates the careers of forty architects from sinan to vauban , joseph paxton to gaudi, buckminister fuller to kengo kama
knew very little about architecture and this book resd like a 1970s part work encylopedia
scenes of the street and other essays by anthony vidler
a dry academic history of paris city planning from the pre revolutionary to the fifth republic illustrate with line drawing of planned designs for colossal buildings and utopian monuments alongside plans of sewers and saltworks
so dry and dull found myself daydreaming and created three new poems
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