Published by Ilex Press, 2018, hardcover, illustrated, 142 pages, condition: as new.
See the greatest minds in history like never before; rendered in the greatest way imaginable: 8-bit pixel art!
This book celebrates the 64 Best. Brains. Ever; the geeks who each played an essential part in taking humanity from mud huts to the world we live in today.
Discover more than you knew about geniuses like Galileo, compelling characters like Ada Lovelace or Nikola Tesla, or be enchanted by heroes of the modern age like super-geek like Steve Wozniak. The one thing they all have in common? They changed the world with their minds.
A fun way to look at the people who have shaped are would, but not always sought the limelight (did you know that Steve Wozniak - not Steve Jobs - created the Apple Computer, and that "Woz" as he is known, enjoys a game of Segway Polo?)
Find out which inventor is most responsible for every electric device in modern homes, but died in penury after obsessing over the creation of a "death beam", or how Archimedes greeted his killer.
The custom-drawn illustrations make turning every page a treat, and the snappy biographies are fascinating.
As the title suggests, the author profiles 64 "geeks", who in their own way helped to shape and influence the world we find ourselves in today. Each one has a two page spread, and although each biography is more of a brief overview of their contributions, the content is nicely written and very easy to read.
The "geeks" covered come from many different eras and fields. There are the old philosophers of antiquity, such as Plato and Aristotle, on to the likes of Newton, Darwin, and on to more modern scientists like Einstein and Hawking. There are some really interesting additions later in the book, as we have figures from music, gaming, art, as well as pioneers of the internet age.
