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A Brief History of Science: As Seen Through the Development of Scientific Instruments

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Dear Ones;

I am extremely disappointed with the product. You see, I have not received it and it has been almost a month since it was ordered. The order is a book, "A Brief History of Science..."

At present, I would not recommend The Book Community. They said right off it had been shipped, but obviously, the stretched the matter somewhat! Amazon seems powerless in the matter.

L. Lee Humphries

i have to say i was sorely disappointed in this book... the subject sounds extremely interesting but after trying painfully to work my way through the first chapter about the discovery of fire i realized very quickly mr. crump has a very confusing, unorganized style of writing...

the first chapter talked about fire, its discovery and applications about 10% of the time... the rest of the chapter was filled with completely unrelated and confusing tangents into linguistics, the developement of mathematics, religion, astronomy and everything but fire which was supposed to be the main theme of the first chapter...

mr. crump also has a very annoying tendency to write run on sentences lumping several discrete ideas together so that by the time you get to the end of the sentence you don't remember what it was supposed to be about... also, when he does manage to stick to a single theme in the sentence he becomes verbose and again throws you off...

i can't believe someone so educated and privileged to have met so many important people in his life, to have seen so many incredible things would be so inept at communicating this to the reader... i'm a physician and read profusely... and unfortunately this has been one of the poorest pieces of scientific writing i've ever read... i'm glad that i only spent about seven dollars on it...

try again mr. crump

This book is awful. Crump repeatedly takes unfounded shots at Christians and Clergymen. Eventually I had to give up on the book, it became intolerable.

The rest of the content was mediocre at best. He made very little effort to keep the reader interested. It read more like a lecture from a dull professor. This is not due to my lack of interest in the subject; I'm a 3rd year physics student. Thomas Crump just managed to suck and blow while writing this book. His insulting attitude towards Christianity didn't help.