At a time when the world was falling apart— in an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London—a group of men looked around them and saw a world of perfect order. Chaotic as it looked, these earliest scientists declared, the universe was in fact an intricate and perfectly regulated clockwork. This was the tail-end of Shakespeare’s century, and these were brillian...(展开全部)

爱德华·多尼克（EdwardDolnick） 美国作家，曾任《波士顿环球报》科学专栏作家。文章散见《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报杂志》《华盛顿邮报》等，著有《救援艺术家》《伪画家的技能》等书，其中《救援艺术家》一书获得2006年爱伦·坡奖（佳犯罪实录类）。对于写作《机械宇宙》一书，具有麻省理工学院数学硕士学位的他形容自己“再次回到自己的根源”。

At a time when the world was falling apart— in an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London—a group of men looked around them and saw a world of perfect order. Chaotic as it looked, these earliest scientists declared, the universe was in fact an intricate and perfectly regulated clockwork. This was the tail-end of Shakespeare’s century, and these were brillian...(展开全部)

爱德华·多尼克（EdwardDolnick） 美国作家，曾任《波士顿环球报》科学专栏作家。文章散见《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报杂志》《华盛顿邮报》等，著有《救援艺术家》《伪画家的技能》等书，其中《救援艺术家》一书获得2006年爱伦·坡奖（佳犯罪实录类）。对于写作《机械宇宙》一书，具有麻省理工学院数学硕士学位的他形容自己“再次回到自己的根源”。

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication in the world...(展开全部)

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication in the world...(展开全部)

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1)....(展开全部)