The prose is extraordinarily well written with lively, entertaining thoughts and many clever and witty lines. The reader gets to journey along the paths that led scientists to some amazing discoveries all this in an extremely simple and enjoyable book. The deep questions may not necessarily be explicitly presented but many of the answers are. Popular science writers should study this book.Ī Short History of Nearly Everything serves a great purpose for those who know little about science. His book is a direct result of addressing these issues.
That's why they're called "little scientists." New to the world and without inhibitions, they relentlessly ask questions about it.Īnd Bill Bryson's curiosity led him to some good questions too: "How does anybody know how much the Earth weighs or how old its rocks are or what really is way down there in the center? How can they know how and when the Universe started and what it was like when it did? How do they know what goes on inside an atom?" The Introduction also tells us that the greatest amazements for Bryson are how scientists worked out such things. "I didn't know what a proton was, or a protein, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't understand how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything really," he tells us in the Introduction.īut Bryson got curious about these and many other things: "Suddenly, I had a powerful, uncharacteristic urge to know something about these matters and to understand how people figure them out."Īll of us should be lucky to be so curious. He is a professional writer, and hitherto researching his book was quite ignorant of science by his own admission. It is superbly written.Īuthor Bill Bryson is not a scientist far from it. What has propelled this popular science book to the New York Time's Best Seller List? The answer is simple. Prepared by the staff of Jupiter Scientific Book Review for A Short History of Nearly Everything
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