by James Burke · Little, Brown and Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316116022
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«The Pinball Effect» is James Burke's historical popular-science essay, published by Little, Brown and Company in paperback (310 pages, in English).
James Burke explains the history of science and technology as a network of unpredictable causes and effects: ideas bounce, collide and combine like a pinball. Thus, from the spice trade to the habit of drinking tea, from Renaissance gardens to the carburetor, or from the miner's safety lamp to modern warfare technology, every discovery opens paths no one had foreseen.
The book carries the subtitle How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible and Other Journeys Through Knowledge. First edition of 1996, with bibliographic references and index.
For readers curious about the history of science and technology and about popular works that show knowledge as a network of connections.
James Burke is a broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer. He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".
