Burke: Circles
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James Burke, ''Circles : 50 Round Trips through History, Technology, Science, Culture.'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000. 286 pages with select bibliography. | James Burke, ''Circles : 50 Round Trips through History, Technology, Science, Culture.'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000. 286 pages with select bibliography. | ||
| - | We're a big fan of historian James Burke here at | + | We're a big fan of historian James Burke here at Scienticity, largely on the strength of his brilliant, imaginative, and very energetic production in the late 70s of the television series and book [[Burke:_Connections|Connections]]. It's a hard act to follow. |
''Circles'' is a collection of fifty essays, all written between 1995 and 1999 for Burke's monthly column in the magazine ''Scientific American'', and they demonstrate the difficulty of containing Burke's breathlessly high-speed approach to telling history in a small space. Each essay of a few thousand words, when read back-to-back as I did, starts to take on a dizzying character, like those spinning disks of black-and-white spirals used in old television programs to induce hypnotic trances. | ''Circles'' is a collection of fifty essays, all written between 1995 and 1999 for Burke's monthly column in the magazine ''Scientific American'', and they demonstrate the difficulty of containing Burke's breathlessly high-speed approach to telling history in a small space. Each essay of a few thousand words, when read back-to-back as I did, starts to take on a dizzying character, like those spinning disks of black-and-white spirals used in old television programs to induce hypnotic trances. | ||
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