How long does it take to read A Short History of Biology?
A Short History of Biology by Isaac Asimov takes about 3 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1964. 181 pages, about 49,775 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The science of biology has grown from the time of ancient Greeks to the present time, which has seen an explosive growth in the field, particularly in the field of molecular biology. Professor Asimov outlines the growth of biological ideas. Issac Asimov was a american writer. He was writing the book 'short history of biology'. In 400B.C, when Hippocrates wrote a book claiming that epilepsy, the sacred disease, was a natural disorder and not a visitation of demons , the science if biology may be said to have begun. . This book is exactly what it's title implies.
Subjects: Science, Biology, History, Biology, history
