Simon Winchester

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How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018

Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008241797
• Artikelnr.: 52511460

Autorenporträt

Simon Winchester grew up beside the Atlantic in South West England and studied geology at Oxford. He is the bestselling author of The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, The Surgeon of Crowthorne (The Professor and the Madman), The Fracture Zone, Outposts and Korea, among many other titles. In 2006 he was awarded the OBE. He lives in western Massachusetts and New York City.