JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS: An author is haunted by avoidable factual errors that end up in print

摘要

William Barclay Parsons was the engineer who designed the first New York City subway system, which ran north from City Hall in Lower Manhattan. In his retirement, he engaged in scholarly pursuits, including the writing of his magnum opus, Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance. He himself was a Renaissance engineer, and I thought of him as capable of achieving anything.