Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688058892 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 495 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Winner of the 1988 American Institute of Physics Prize, Ferris's book offers the listener "an exhilarating, wide-ranging journey that takes us from the shores of the Mediterranean, where the second-century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy fashioned his creaky celestial spheres, to modern-day research institutes, where theorists contemplate this and other universes bubbling out of a quantum vacuum." (The New York Times)
Quantum Leap in a book This is a wonderful book. A fine read, right from the start. Frankly, I am still slightly "giddy" from learning what a quantum leap really is, or at least thinking I have learned. I'm almost 50 but I think this is a wonderful book for younger readers. By younger, I mean older teens and twenty-somethings who will enjoy the entertaining approach to the universe Mr. Ferris provides. I don't currently have the book, it has been loaned to a young fr. "How do we know about space and time?" according to Charles W. Webb. Tim Ferris is a great teacher who gives the essentials in a lucid manner. Anyone who wishes to know how we know what we do about space, time, and creation should start with this book. Charlie Webb,MD. Excellent history of Cosmology GEORGE R. FISHER These sorts of books fall pretty much into one of two categories: delightful or awful. This one is delightful.Ferris takes us from Ptolomy's antecedants up to string theory. It's interesting, comprehensive and easy to read.
Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin's and Lyell's investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. . Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. BOMC alternate. From Publishers Weekly The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. His narrative humanizes the s