A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
To that end, he has Attached himself to a host of the world's most advanced (and often obsessed) Archaeologists, paleontologists, physicists, astronomers, anthropologists, and athematicians, traveling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. A Short History of Nearly Ecerything is the record of this quest, and it is a profound, funny,Supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, asOnly Bill Bryson can render it.
CONTANTS:
★PART I: LOST IN THE COSMOS
‧How to Build the Universe‧Welcome to the Solar System‧The Reverend Evans's Universe
★PART II: THE SIZE OF THE EARTH
‧The measure of things ‧The Stone-Breakers ‧Science Red in Tooth and Claw ‧Elemental Matters
★PART III: A NEW AGE DAWNS
‧Einstein's Universe ‧The Mighty Atom ‧Getting the Lead Out ‧Muster Mark's Quarks ‧The earth Moves
★PART IV: DANGEROUS PLANET
‧Bang ‧The Fire Below ‧Dangerous Beauty
★PART V: LIFE ITSELF
‧Lonely Planet ‧Into the Troposphere ‧The Bounding Main ‧The Rise of Life ‧Small World ‧Life Goes On ‧Good-bye to All That ‧The Richness of Being ‧Cells ‧Darwin's Singular Notion ‧The Stuff of Life
★PART VI: THE ROAD TO US
‧Ice Time ‧The Mysterious Biped ‧The Restless Ape ‧Good-bye
幽默好奇的文學作家--Bill Bryson試圖了解一切文明的起源與過程,他將旅行蒐集得來的知識集結成書,他喜愛的主題包括考古學、地質、生物、天文....他不僅啟發讀者發現許多問題,也帶領讀者知道發現答案的過程。
例如我們是如何知道存在於地球中心的物質、宇宙的構成....他讓我們發現人類所居住的世界到處充滿驚奇!