Book review: 'The Seven Measures of the World' by Piero Martin
E&T
AUGUST 8, 2023
Martin adopts a meandering approach to storytelling that reflects the messy nature of science, its resistance to being squashed into discrete categories or linear narratives of discovery and invention. But there are so very many sketches packed into fewer than 200 pages that Seven Measures feels cluttered: a ‘greatest hits’ of science.
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