Thomas Crump
Thomas Crump was the author of A Brief History of Science. His lifelong passionate interest in science and its history gave rise to a number of books, including Solar Eclipse and The Anthropology of Numbers. A mathematician and anthropologist, until his retirement in 1994, he taught anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
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A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World
From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the…
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A Brief History of the Age of Steam
In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the…
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A Brief History of Science
From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first century, Thomas Crump traces…