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.
