The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible and Other Journeys Through Knowledge.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v28 |
| Issue | n11 |
| Published | 1997-04-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | James Burke |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
As the pace of change quickens, the human desire to understand change strengthens. That desire is a corollary of the larger human desire to grasp why things happen - the desire at the root of all science, most technology, and some ideology. Two recent books give differing, and in some ways opposing, looks at how and why things change, as they attempt to analyze and explain chains of causation in man's physical and mental worlds.
One book - James Burke's The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible and Other Journeys Through Knowledge -...
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