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The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible-And Other Journeys Through Knowledge
The Pinball Effect How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor PossibleAnd Other Journeys Through Knowledge
Author: James Burke
The Pinball Effect takes the reader on many different journeys through the web of knowledge. Knowledge, it turns out, has many unforeseen and surprising effects. The book, for instance, owes its existence to German jeweler Johannes Gutenberg's getting the date wrong one day in the fifteenth century. James Burke, author and host of t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316116022
ISBN-10: 0316116025
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 310
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Publisher: Little Brown Co
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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A compelling look at complexity theory and how knowledge links us all together.


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