The pinball effect : how Renaissance water gardens made the carburetor possible, and other journeys through knowledge /
Burke, James, 1936-
The pinball effect : how Renaissance water gardens made the carburetor possible, and other journeys through knowledge / James Burke. - 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. - Boston : Little, Brown, 1997, c1996. - x, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
"Back Bay Books.".
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-292) and index.
Choice. Publisher's Weekly.
Explores what the author calls the web of change, looking at how discoveries from the past connect to knowledge and inventions of the present.
Adult Follett Library Resources.
0316116106 (pb)
Inventions--History.
Inventions--History.
T15 / .B765 1997
609
The pinball effect : how Renaissance water gardens made the carburetor possible, and other journeys through knowledge / James Burke. - 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. - Boston : Little, Brown, 1997, c1996. - x, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
"Back Bay Books.".
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-292) and index.
Choice. Publisher's Weekly.
Explores what the author calls the web of change, looking at how discoveries from the past connect to knowledge and inventions of the present.
Adult Follett Library Resources.
0316116106 (pb)
Inventions--History.
Inventions--History.
T15 / .B765 1997
609