Lewis Dartnell’s The Knowledge—How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch is a sort of grand tour for technological underpinnings of industrial civilization and how you might bootstrap them. Might be a bit dry, but it’s popular writing and if the kid’s already reading encyclopedias it should fit right in. Lots of concrete details about specific technologies.
Might go for a left field option and see what he makes of Euclid’s Elements.
Lewis Dartnell’s The Knowledge—How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch is a sort of grand tour for technological underpinnings of industrial civilization and how you might bootstrap them. Might be a bit dry, but it’s popular writing and if the kid’s already reading encyclopedias it should fit right in. Lots of concrete details about specific technologies.
Might go for a left field option and see what he makes of Euclid’s Elements.