Here is an idea for a book collection to accompany you during the summer holidays. It is not necessarily easy to understand science when you are not a scientist yourself. However, there are works that can help us approach the biggest concepts and explain the history of the biggest ideas, in a very simple way.
This is the case of the At the beach collection, offered by Dunod editions. Among these books “Hawking at the beach: the universe in a deckchair”, or “Galileo at the beach: astronomy in a deckchair”, which its author, Arnaud Cassan, tells us about. Reading these books is like learning science in a deckchair!
Science without the hassle
The starting idea is scientific writing. Tell the story of scientific thought and its evolution. Explain how this or that idea about the universe, astronomy, mathematics or even philosophy was born. For Arnaud Cassan, “following a great famous scientist, like Galileo or Hawking, is also a way of letting yourself be guided. Not to understand knowledge in the form of points: chapter 1, chapter 2. But on the contrary to follow the evolution of a thought in a historical scientific context. And, like that, to gradually see the ideas germinate. And let yourself be lulled through the pages. »
A varied collection
The À la plage collection from Dunod editions provides entertaining and accessible reading on serious and varied subjects: psychology, science, philosophy, history, and many others. Here are some titles: “Confucius at the beach”, “Neanderthal at the beach”, “Tesla at the beach”, “Hawking at the beach”, etc.
