![]() ![]() ![]() This book has the hallmarks of anything by Bill Bryson: the humour, the eccentric characters, the wordiness, the fascinating anecdotes, the wonder that anything exists and functions at all. There were moments I had to stop and re-read something which seemed fantastically unbelievable. The most amazing thing about it was the frequency of mind-blowing facts, usually involving very large or very small numbers. ![]() I enjoyed this book, even if I didn’t understand the science sometimes. For a book, it’s not particularly short, but when you consider the sheer breadth of the content, it does seem very short indeed. This book is really two histories in one: a prehistory, from before the universe began, right up to the emergence of homo sapiens and a history of science from around the 17th century up to the beginning of the 21st century. ![]()
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