Book description
Drawings, diagrams, and charts compare distances, sizes, areas, volumes, masses, weights, temperatures, times, speeds, and quantities
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1 author picked Comparisons as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I understand better by sketching things on paper. I couldn’t get abstract ideas first go, I had to draw them out. Someone on the Internet recommended that I get ahold of this book, and I’m glad I did.
It’s an encyclopedia of facts, but all explained using relative magnitudes. So instead of telling me a giraffe is this tall, I get to see it relative to a horse. I love that way of teaching.
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