IEEE Spectrum magazine’s podcast interview with Mark Anderson on The Day the World Discovered the Sun.
“This book—we already alluded to it—has more ups and downs than the Alps. Besides ambitious astronomers and fortune-seeking horologists, it’s got murderous banditos in New Spain, suspicious Russian villagers, Tahitian women trading views of their breasts for anything made of iron, and at least two actually mad, as in insane, European kings. Did you know when you went into this research what a wild ride this story would be?”
Published on May 07, 2012 20:16