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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910819
Author:William Booth

THE VIRGIN AND THE MOUSETRAP Essays in Search of the Soul of Science By Chet Raymo Viking. 199 pp. $18.95

It is the dawn of the 20th century, Chet Raymo writes, and Henry Adams is visiting the Paris Exposition of 1900. He enters the Gallery of Machines. There he stands, the grandson and great-grandson of presidents, gawking slack-jawed at the giant dynamos generating something new called electricity. Adams didn't get it.

"He understood the principle of conservation of energy that linked the dynamos to the hissing steam engines outside the hall," Raymo writes, "and he could see the ...

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