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A carregar... How to Mellify A Corpse: And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science & Superstitionpor Vicki Leon
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Won as an ARC. If my response to the tone is an indication, I'm not the target audience. I find it pleasant enough to dip into, but I don't enjoy reading more than a few pages at a time. I'm classifying it as "reference" to indicate that it contains many interesting facts and doesn't need to be read sequentially. This book looks at science, technology, and superstition in the Greco-Roman world. The book's title is from a bit on Alexander the Great's body being preserved in honey. The format is short, one or two page anecdotes and mini-histories. Everything from war machines to makeup is covered, and the writing style is very breezy. It kind of annoyed me in a few places, but for the most part it was enjoyable. I didn't know even half the stuff in the book, and I really appreciate books that teach me something. (Even if my bad memory makes me forget it a week later... Sigh.) Fans of Vicki Leon's other books will enjoy this one. I certainly did (though not as much as Working IX to V). It's just as witty and informative as all her other books, and it impressed me as to just how sophisticated and advanced ancient technologies really were. In some instances, modern engineering has been unable to replicate what the ancients did back in the day! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Draws on a range of disciplines in an introduction to ancient-world science, mechanical engineering, and superstitions, from Aristotle's political views to Archimedes's "Eureka" moment and the Egyptian practice of embalming. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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There wasn’t a lot of detail in the stories but that was more than all right, in relatively short sections the author both made clear what each invention, philosophy or discover was and managed to humanize the story and inject a great deal of humor without sounding forced or condescending…no matter how silly the idea the ancients had.
I learned some new things, gained a different perspective on others and made connections between ideas, culture and history that I hadn’t previously made and had fun in the process so for me this was a very successful book. ( )