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A carregar... Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (original 2001; edição 2002)por Oliver Sacks (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Neste livro, Oliver Sacks descreve os seus primeiros contactos com a ciência sob a orientação do seu tio «químico», o Tio Tungsténio, numa época em que a realidade virtual não se tinha ainda apoderado do conhecimento sobre o mundo. A partir de experiências com a electricidade, com metais e com a fotografia, Oliver Sacks inicia uma viagem que nos leva às suas paixões da infância e à origem de uma mente particularmente fértil e criativa.
Romantic chemistry sounds like a contradiction in terms, but the two words pair naturally in this book. When Mr. Sacks departs from the narrative of his childhood to serve up lengthy digressions on the finer points of rare earth metals or electromagnetic reactions, his writing can lapse into textbook lecturing, but even these dense, scientific passages are enlivened by his boyish wonder at the amazing logic and strangeness of the world. Thus this is both the story of a particular English boy's life just before, during, and after World War II and a maximally engaging, personalized overview of chemistry, from Robert Boyle to Madame Curie. É resumida emTem um comentário sobre o textoPrémiosDistinctions
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother, who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection, and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his "Uncle Tungsten," whose factory produces tungsten-filament light bulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes, in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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