An account that couldn't decide if it was a scandalous history or a popular science, The Clockwork Universe meandered through religion, astronomy, personal scientific feuds, disease, and math, so there's a little bit in there for you, as long as you're willing to sludge through the rest. I found ...
Overall this was very a good book. It described how Newton and Leibniz came to discover calculus independent of one another. additonally it portraits of other leading men of science during the 1600's, as well as the ancient Greeks and famous scientists throughout history.Dolnick's treatment of ...
I picked up this book as forgers fascinate me and this book is about one of the greatest forgers. Its a quick read that dashes through the decades mixing in art history, World War II history as well as an understanding of art criticism. The story is complicated and difficult to read at points as ...
For anyone interested in how forgers get away with their trade, this book is based on art forger Han Van Meegeren's forgeries and how he fooled the entire art world into believing his works were actually by artists like Vermeer and DeHooch. I'm using the word "based" instead of saying the book is...
Han van Meegeren was a Dutchman who wanted to be a painter, but whatever he tried was unacceptable to the critics. Then one day he decided to paint under another countryman's name -- Vermeer. His efforts with the new name were met with wild enthusiasm. van Meegeren found 17th century canvas and w...
Dolnick, Edward. THE RESCUE ARTIST: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece. (2005). ****. “On a frozen February morning in 1994, two men in a stolen car skidded to a halt in front of Norway’s national art museum. They raced across the snow and grabbed a ladder ...
Spoiler Alert: There are whitewater rapids in the next chapter!The story of John Wesley Powell's journey through the Grand Canyon is undoubtedly epic and an amazing testimony to the indomitable determination (and luck) of the rag-tag group of men who were first to brave the cliffs and rapids of t...
While Powell and his men struggled through rapids and whirlpools, like Ulysses and his crew in some modern retelling of the Odyssey, the rest of the world had been left with no clue to their fate but a handful of out-of-date letters. A conversation between two strangers in a stagecoach revealed h...
To keep these notes in bounds, I have not documented facts that can be readily checked in standard sources. Publication information is provided in the notes only for those sources not listed in the bibliography. Epigraph The universe is but a watch: Bernard de Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plu...
With the Getty’s cooperation lined up, Hill was eager to bring Chris Roberts on stage. The problem was that no one had heard from the thieves.It was mid-April, and The Scream had been gone two months. It was time, Scotland Yard decided, to coax the crooks out from hiding. Dick Ellis knew a dubiou...