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I found this physics book a non-uninteresting and even quite a good piece.

There are forebodings of LIGO and LHC's Higgs boson detections ten years after. There are in there some topics skimmed that made the successes of various, more recent, vulgarisation works, such as the principle of least action with Veritasium on Youtube, or the three-body problem with Liu Cixin.

There is also a focus on string theory maybe a bit dated, or references to Hindu culture a little too pronounced.

I am eager to find more and better of this type of epistemologic book but from the 2020s.

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Exquisite french prose since it is Rousseau, but I found the subjects quite boring, and the pathos churning, despite the delicacy of the inquiry into human feelings. I got a strong impression of nature across the Paris outskirts of the XVIIIth and this particular swiss island.

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The book is dated in some places - paleo-oceanography, climate change - but its beautiful prose helps it resist time. It made me want to reach some day Saint Paul's rocks on the mid-Atlantic ridge, 700km north-east of Fernando de Noronha :)

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