The Greatest Inventions of the Last 2000 Years
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The Greatest Inventions of the Last 2000 Years by John Brockman
Literary agent 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. Gutenberg's printing press wins the most endorsements, but the neuroscientist Colin Blakemore argues for the birth-control pill, biologist Richard Dawkins nominates the spectroscope and physicist Freeman Dyson makes a case for hay! An eclectic collection of ideas from some of the foremost thinkers of our age.
John Brockman, president of the Edge Foundation and a founder of The RealityClub, is a writer and literary agent based in New York. He is has written and edited several books, including The Third Culture and How Things Are: A Scie
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297645757 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297645757 |
| Title | The Greatest Inventions of the Last 2000 Years |
| Author | John Brockman |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2000-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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