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Science: The Definitive Visual Guide

Description

This remarkable reference book tells the story of science from earliest times to the present day, taking in everything from ancient Greek geometry to quantum physics, and the wedge to the worldwide web. Exploring science in a thematic, highly approachable manner, each spread takes as its theme a specific event, discovery, invention, experiment, theory, or individual and explains why this subject was so significant in the development of scientific thought and what its impact on history has been. In addition to providing a broad-ranging and comprehensive history of science, the book also explains how science works, employing DK's trademark clarity and visual ingenuity to render tricky scientific subjects easily comprehensible.

Science is structured chronologically with five chapters covering major phases in world history from ancient times to the present day, with an eye to the future. Within these chapters, subjects are arranged in discrete spreads, each of which takes a key scientific concept, event, discovery, or process as its subject. These spreads are framed by "Before" and "After" panels that place the subject in context, revealing the causes and consequences that surround it. Panels and feature spreads highlight key figures and inventions in the history of science, while major scientific breakthroughs are also pulled out as special features. An extensive reference section sets out key scientific principles and formula, and contains essential graphics, such as the periodic table.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-22
Summary: "Another Winner from DK"

I'm half way through this book, and I am enjoying every page. Not only is this book enormous in its scope of the sciences, but it's a good history of science as well. If you love science, and you like DK style books with great text and pictures intertwined, you'll love this book.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-02-12
Summary: "Reasonable at the coffee-table level"

The strength of this book for me lies in its organization. Using time as a thread makes for an interesting presentation. The weakness of the book lies in its terribly sloppy editing. The "calendar" of the section on the industrial revolution places Linus Pauling's "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" a full century ahead of its actual publication. The discussion of plant life cycles ends in mid sentence. There are enough errors to make the reader unsure whether to trust statements about unfamiliar material.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-11-15
Summary: "Beautifully illustrated, historical format, not too deep"

As with other DK books, this one is absolutely beautifully illustrated, so it should be engaging for kids, as well as a pleasant coffee table book for adults to browse during weekend afternoons.

The book is organized historically rather than by subject matter. Of course the upside is that you can get a sense of the sequence and timing with which scientific ideas emerged. But the downside is that the coverage of any given subject (eg, physics, chemistry, or biology) is scattered intermittently across many pages, so this format isn't ideal for systematically learning particular subjects.

Also, the scope of the book includes a significant amount of technology rather than strictly science. That isn't necessarily a problem, and of course there has always been interaction between science and technology, but failing to make a clear distinction between science and technology contributes to the public's mistaken conflation of the two.

Finally, regarding coverage of science itself, this book does a good job of explaining the basics and providing interesting historical details, but it doesn't go very deep into anything. As is typical for a DK book, the level is somewhere near the lower end of the popular science spectrum, and certainly well below university science courses. That's not inherently a problem, but something for readers to be aware of.

The net result is that I can recommend this book to kids and adults with a general interest in science, but people with a serious interest in science (and looking for rigor) may find this book too limited for their needs, although they might still find it to be a fun book for casual reading.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-10-27
Summary: "DK books"

This book is another DK book with exceptional pictures, graphs, etc. It links the written word beautifully with the included pictures. I have 10 DK books on various subjects and they are all fantastic. All purchased on Amazon.com.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-10-06
Summary: "Stunningly beautiful book, but with some serious weaknesses"

This is another in DK's magnificent "Definitive Visual Guide" series, and is perhaps the most ambitious since it covers all of science. I had a chance to peruse the book and am looking forward to a serious reading. What I can say now is that the interplay of text and image is, as usual with DK Publishing, masterfully done using state-of-the-art printing technology. I noticed that the book possessed many of the strengths--and weaknesses--one finds in other DK publications, such as some of the images that seem to be simply aesthetic "filler" rather than actually enhancing one's understanding of the topic or the textual material. This is a minor criticism, however, and I found myself generally absorbed by the visual and textual content.

The content is well developed and substantial, though it suffers from the same shortcomings that other general histories of science betray, and which seem to be a product of the current academic narrow-sightedness in the history of science. First, there is a strong emphasis on the physical sciences and astronomy at the expense of the biological sciences. Also there is a pronounced British-American orientation to the narrative, again at the expense of other cultures contributing strongly to the history of science (Germany being the most obvious example). Knowing the history of German science as well as I do, there is no question in my own thinking that Germany contributed more to the history of science and technology than either Britain or France, and yet this book (as well as many other English-language texts) simply assumes that the history of science was largely a British and French affair. The evidence for Germany's contributions are around us everywhere, from the number of Nobel Prize winners over the past century, to the most critical discoveries in quantum theory, on through to our households being filled with Braun, Krups, and Bosch (etc etc etc) appliances and tools. Companies like BMW, Audi, and Mercedes define the finest in automobile engineering and design--what can one say about British appliances, tools, or automobiles? German science dominates in a number of current and emerging areas, such as environmental science and the conservation of natural resources. It seems pretty silly to read a book on the history of science like this one, and to have it be dominated by British and French scientists and their discoveries, and then suddenly come to a present dominated by German science and technology. How do these historians of science reconcile this?

Finally, the book simply ignores what is arguably the most significant--and interesting--scientific discipline: anthropology. This is astonishing, since one of the most fascinating narratives in the history of science is the transformation of medicine, travel narratives, and human biology into the field of anthropology in the late 18th and 19th centuries. How do we come to view man as a part of nature, subject to the same physical laws as all other scientific phenomena? Again, as with other histories of science, this book simply goes over the same old biographical terrain of Darwin, instead of treating him as only a stepping stone in this development, and in covering the topic more fully.

In the end, the book does represent a milestone in the popular literature on the history of science in its presentation, but unfortunately does not break new ground in providing a more comprehensive, updated narrative that incorporates new perspectives, and in addressing the shortcomings of other histories of science coming out of academia.