The pleasure of finding things out

Well, during the weekend I finally finished a book that I bought from the Science Museum in the beginning of last september: John Gribbin's Science: A History. By the way, John is a visiting fellow of Astronomy here in the University of Sussex.

The book itself is brilliant and mind broadening: it covers the story of the Western science over the past 500 years and provides an excellent introductory to the whole subject. Amongst the things I enjoyed the most were Newton's bitterness and the explanation of the myth of his "standing on the shoulders of giants" as well as all the development of the quantum theory. I'll definitely pursue the subject further starting with a book I bought quite some time ago from Frankfurt about Einstein's most famous equation. Still, for now I have to stick to some conventional stuff: Freeman's Economics of Industrial Innovation has already taken a place beside my bed. Respect!