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Longitude, by Dava Sobel

When I lived in London my dad came to visit and convinced us to go to Greenwich. We have seen the observatory museum but we were quite disappointed. It was not bad, for charity, but a lot for children. Then came the famous square where the statue that indicates the meridian we saw a little house. I asked about, was the home of the astronomer royal, then transformed into a museum. Upon entering, it was love at first sight. It tells the story of longitude, to calculate the difficulties, attempts, partial solutions, and the history of clocks. I fell in love, and the bookshop dad gave me the famous book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel. I started reading a very short time later, but I did not understand much and I let it go. In fact it is full of technical terms, and is not an easy read in the original language.
Indiana Dad is fond of mathematics, astronomy, strange mechanisms and lots of other things that I do not understand. For this reason, Indiana uncle always gives a lot of books on mathematics, astronomy, and other mechanisms strange things that do not understand. When I saw her on the library "Longitude" in Italian, I decided to try again.
The book tells the story of the calculation of longitude, which ends with becoming the history of modern watch, and their inventor, Harrison. The story is beautiful, but the book does not bear comparison with the museum in Greenwich. Come back from the museum was gasatissima: I learned a lot of interesting technical details, I understand how the various clocks Harrison, and I saw with my own eyes his genius. The book, however, tells the story very well, but it runs too much on the more technical part. I could say that "tells" the genius of Harrison, but not the shows. Some illustrations and a small appendix on the operation of the clocks would make the story very more compelling in my opinion. I realize that probably the author is not an expert, but writing something like, "Harrison decided to use diamonds to the cut-out" without explaining what it means and what is the escapement of a clock seems a bit 'useless.
In any case, I found a very good book, I just think that maybe, if the author had seen the museum in Greenwich before writing it (she herself admits to be gone in a second time) would have been even better.


PS: I just discovered that there is an illustrated version of the book, from what I understand is only available in English, can be found on Amazon.

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impotent man wanted for peaceful coexistence, Gaby Hauptmann

start with the protagonist. A beautiful woman, stunning body, which is losing its head at every living male within 2 km. Stove and charm that makes the effect on men who only want one thing from her, he decides that it should be solved at its root by eliminating the sex of his life. Puts into practice its aim through an ad in which a man tries to have a relationship in which powerless. It is a number, promising enough, until it receives a particular response and decided that his love of his life. The meeting confirmed his assumption, and it seems as if you should marry the next day, because of course he is of the same opinion. But at this point, the protagonist begins to regret his initial intentions. After a necessary pseudointernazionale intrigue (the author just can not help it), definitely a lot of petty psychology questionable (especially the views of impotence and frigidity), comes the happy ending. Dull.

The idea is not bad, but I grew so confused and stupid.
Even the protagonist is unsympathetic to me. It will not properly Claudia Schiffer, who will not turn when I walk anyone, but to me these beautiful women, beautiful, unreal perfect give a lot on my nerves (I had already spoken ). Hover placing one place to another non-issue (oh, that unfortunately, I take everyone for a prostitute .. well, my dear, the behavior that you do not know what else you could expect), he can always all right, have a lot of money and everything they want. Well, I would like to have what I need to do a hard Executioner, and not always succeed, so can not stand. Will envy? likely, but I'm not ashamed.
Then in many cases (the rest it comes to impotence) the author is an amateur psychologist sudden saying things that seem to come from the "Handbook of Small psychologist." Grandma Duck with his proverbs would prove far more profound.
But I say, it is necessary (as in this case ) cite Freud Baci? Because these authors do not write a simple story, without being pretentious, which look exactly like what it is: romance? But no, you have to be deep .... And drown in a puddle.

Every time I read a book by this author I do not like the previous one. I just need a stupid book to distract me during a difficult period and I only had this pad.

And excuse me for being so irritable, I will pass.

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Dracula, Plato and Darwin, by Martin Gardner Books

During this time I am reading several books on mathematics. There are several reasons, firstly I returned to Rome for a month and I only have the well-stocked library of Dad, then they are under stress, and mathematics books are great for relaxing. There is nothing better than a good puzzle to occupy the mind and not think about everyday problems.

Martin Gardner is a myth, and his essays are as always very nice. I found a particularly happy choice of essays, topics are very varied, as well as styles. We move from mathematical games and paradoxes to the presentation of complex scientific theories, such as strings. Talk about issues mathematicians known as the Fibonacci series, and then moves on topics completely outside his field, as genetics and neurology (though I regret to say that genetics seems to have ideas at times slightly confusing).

The style is often witty and imaginative, I liked the stories more or less science fiction, the rest many of the essays presented here have been published in the journal Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , and I appreciate this very much ties with one of my favorite writers .

I also really liked his sociological and philosophical. Cites numerous philosophers, more or less known to the general public, presents the views of different schools and finally take a position critical reasons for his point of view on the basis of what it expresses.

This book I also recalled another of my favorite writers, the great Gould : Gardner as he has shown in these essays a wide culture and considerable curiosity about different phenomena between them.

He also shared with the famous paleontologist also his efforts against the pseudoscience that I can not appreciate.

PS: my copy, bought in a Feltrinelli in Rome, was printed wrong. I contacted the publisher (Zanichelli), and they're very kind. For those who need it I called the number you find on this website http://www.zanichelli.it/contatti/