商品簡介
Wide ranging freelance writer Pickover revives a scandal from 18th-century London that titillated the public and embarrassed the medical establishment. Mary Toft seemed an ordinary young women, though with a peculiar passion, until she gave birth to something inhuman. She was propelled into a dark medical subculture in the royal courts, and spawned a flood of media coverage and jokes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Clifford A. Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is the author of over 30 books on such topics as computers and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, religion, human behavior and intelligence, time travel, alien life, and science fiction.
Pickover is a prolific inventor with dozens of patents, is the associate editor for several journals, the author of colorful puzzle calendars, and puzzle contributor to magazines geared to children and adults.
WIRED magazine writes, "Bucky Fuller thought big, Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." According to The Los Angeles Times, "Pickover has published nearly a book a year in which he stretches the limits of computers, art and thought."
The Christian Science Monitor writes, "Pickover inspires a new generation of da Vincis to build unknown flying machines and create new Mona Lisas." Pickover's computer graphics have been featured on the cover of many popular magazines and on TV shows.
His web site, Pickover.Com, has received millions of visits. His Blog RealityCarnival.Com is one of his most popular sites.
