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Title: A museum guide view of the history of science
Review: This book has a very enticing title, and you can't help looking at the clock photos in the first pages.But there could be more substance in the text. Ideas are presented without a context - the powder of sympathy appears to be an isolated idea. Numbers and facts are treated like adjectives; for instance, don't try to calculate how many people died in the Centurion (chapter 2) and compare to the number of survivors.The book looks a lot like a museum visit, where each piece is explained, but no clear link is visible between the pieces. And then, the explanations are quite superficial, with little technical detail.Not that the longitude problem requires a technical text. On the contrary, it can be presented in dramatic colors as Umberto Eco did in his "The Island of the day before".
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