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Title: A comprehensive accomplishment
Review: As a "general reader" I have to take issue with the reviewer from Cambridge. The advantage of a book is that, where discussion gets too particular or specialized, one may content oneself with the general idea--in this case, without penalty. Everdell's grasp of fields as diverse as mathematics and painting may try the expertise of all but a few specialists, but his unifying theses will not. And this is more than a work of "intellectual" history: the author deals with the practices and discoveries of various forms or art and science and avoids the trap of their a priori reduction to intellectual principles.
