分类：History of Science & Scholarship

A Short History of Nearly Everything [U.S.] Bill Bryson / by

[American] Bill Bryson, author; translated by Yan Weiming and Chen Yong; Jieli Publishing House, 2005.2 I’ve just finished reading A Short History of Nearly Everything. As a popular science book that is both lively and entertaining, it is certainly well worth recommending. The Chinese translation has an impressive lineup of consultants: Xu Zhihong, Gan Zizhao, and He Zuoxiu; and of reviewers: Wu Guosheng, Liu Huajie, and Zhang Butian. Just seeing these familiar names is reason enough to buy a copy. However, both translators are literature scholars and translators from foreign-language institutes, rather than, like many of the translators in the First Push series, people with a scientific background. In the…