Connections: by James Burke.

Perhaps even before it was a television series this was a series of columns in a scientific journal with great popular appeal, and we were fans who later stuck on when the television series was available to us (being in some professions not only does not allow one time to watch television but also makes one being looked at askance if one so much as admitted to looking in the direction of a television, or thinking of buying one). Now it is a book, and I am sure there are dvds of the television series out for sale, it ought to be fun to read and to watch.

Whoever thought of it has a genius of some sort, connecting seemingly far out incidents, people, inventions, practices, events, as they were in life - it is only in today's increasingly narrower definitions of disciplines of study that things seem not connected as they in reality are.