Rockets Text Pages 28/5/03 12:18 PM Page iii He holds an MCSE in iambic mechanics and was recently the William McGonagall Fellow in Scansion Adjustment at the University of Anson Bay, where he gave master classes in designing stoppers for Klein bottles, using mistaken identity matrix theory. His admitted hobbies include ambulatory plant taxonomy, wandering up small hills slowly, sitting on top of small hills and wondering how to get down, listening to classical music and watching ballet and opera, reading, argument, rocks, invertebrates and red wine. His last book for Allen & Unwin was Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar (2002) and he is currently working on a history of poisons and poisoners for release in 2004. He says that he is, at heart, an essayist, but that some of his essays go on for quite a while and when a temporary obsession takes over his life, that is where his books come from. For amusement, he maintains a science Web site called Science Playwiths, which seems to draw a fair amount of critical acclaim (and traffic) and he is an enthusiastic member of the Gateway to Educational Materials, a project of the US Department of Education. For the past four years he has been writing on science, technology and mathematics for, an Australian online encyclopaedia. ![]() He has been a teacher himself, as well as a bureaucrat, management consultant and museum educator, among other things, but he works mainly in things related to education, writing, science and number-crunching. He and his wife Christine (a science teacher who understands him) have three adult children, all with a taste for things scientific. Peter Macinnis is a science writer who lives and works on Sydney’s northern beaches, where he was also raised. ![]() Rockets Text Pages 28/5/03 12:18 PM Page ii ![]() Rockets Text Pages 28/5/03 12:18 PM Page i
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