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.