I finally got to start Big Bang by Simon Singh this morning. Thus far, I really like it. It opens with a review of Greek scientific thought, and while I quibble a little with Singh’s distinction between science and technology (and I need to emphasize the “little”ness of my quibble), one thing I definitely appreciate is how he actually gives us the methods by which Greeks were able to come to their many fairly-close-to-modern scientific views. In other books I’ve read that deal with Greek historical scientific thought, they mention about how certain Greeks discovered the size of the Earth and the Moon and the Sun, etc. but they never mention how this happens.
Thankfully, Singh does mention the details. :-) In any case, after I read more I’ll post a more indepth review, but Singh is definitely one of my favorite authors.
