內容簡介
內容簡介 Discover long-lost stories of science spanning thousands of years of Life on Earth in this journey through our universe's most peculiar properties. Amazon to Zodiac takes readers on a journey through science's biggest, tiniest, weirdest, and wildest stories from the realms of explorers and inventors to space, evolution, myths, and more through 101 bite-sized chapters. Tour the pyramids, learn forgotten languages, re-invent the wheel, sail the seven seas, meet the dinosaurs, roam the universe, and uncover the truth beyond mysteries. Combining boundless curiosity with inexhaustible skepticism on each and every page, science writer Barry Evans collects the most fascinating tales from our natural world to show that science is not only extremely valuable, but utterly exciting as well.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Barry Evans writes a regular science column for the North Coast Journal of Humboldt County, California. A retired civil engineer, he is the author of The Wrong-Way Comet and Everyday Wonders, has published many local histories of Northern California, and produced segments for his local NPR affiliate. Evans lives in Old Town Eureka, CA with his wife Louisa Rogers, several kayaks and bikes, and a stuffed gorilla named "Nameless."