Eureka Man is so far mostly interesting.

I say "mostly," because at what seems like the mid-point of the book, it stops being about Archimedes, and starts describing the journeys taken by some of the critical texts from which we know about Archimedes. Which means for the last 3 chapters I've been reading about papyrus, parchment, scribes, and the repeated sacking of entire cultures' intellectual capital.

Having a little trouble staying awake, is all.

#1632, posted at 2011-01-03 14:28:51 in The Good Books