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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

By: Arthur, W. Brian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Allen Lane: 2009

Seller ID: 2307363

ISBN: 184614017X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Edges lightly rubbed. 2009 Hard Cover. v, 246 pp. More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being, says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technologys irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur answers these questions and more, setting forth a boldl...
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The Science Record for 1876: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery during the Past Year with Illustrations

By: Beach, Alfred A. (Editor)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Munn & Company, Office of the 'Scientific American', New York: 1876

Seller ID: 2294782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 5 in OCLC. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, general light wear. 1876 Hard Cover. 597 pp. The last of five annual issues chronicling scientific progress. With introduction of gallium as a new element, improvements in metallurgy, photography, trade tools, etc.
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The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics

By: Beadle, George & Muriel

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 2263983

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by both authors without attribution on half-title page ('Sincerely, George Beadle, Muriel Beadle'). Faint abrasion on front board. 1966 Full-Leather. x, [4], 242, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full beige morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A description of the science of genetics by George Beadle and his wife Muriel. George Beadle won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Edw...
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Science for All [Volume V]

By: Brown, Robert; Newcomb, Simon; Ackroyd, William; Rudler, F.W.; Carnelley, Thomas; Wright, E. Perceval; Mann, Robert James; Carpenter, P. Herbert; Bell, F. Jeffrey; Duns, J.; King, C. Cooper; Lowe, F.R. Eaton; Lapworth, Charles; Hammond, Arthur; Durham, W

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London / Paris / New York, Cassell & Company, Limited: 1890

Seller ID: 2303804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No date, circa 1890. Volume 5 of a 6 volume set. Fore edge very faintly foxed, small sticker remnant on front endpaper. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of the spectroscope, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: An Eclipse of the Moon; Colour; A Piece of Black-Lead; Hot Ice: The Boundaries of the Liquid State of Matter; A Brown Sea-Weed; Sunset, Twilight, and Halos; Stone-Lilies and Feather-Stars; Voice; Crag and Tail; The Genesis of a Sword; How to Make a Chemical Analysis; A Pi...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Broadway Books: 2004

Seller ID: 2307506

ISBN: 076790818X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Reprint. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 544 pp. InA Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trailwell, most of it. InA Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understandand, if possible, answerthe oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there ...
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Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah

By: Cawthorne, Nigel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Chartwell Books: 2014

Seller ID: 2305416

ISBN: 078582944X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

9th printing. An exceptional copy. 2014 Hard Cover. 192 pp. Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his one-time assistant and lifelong arch nemesis, Tesla, who made the breakthrough in alternating current technology. Edison and Tesla carried on a bitter feud for years, but it was Tesla's AC generators that illuminated the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago; the first time that an event of such magn...
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Comstock's Common School Philosophy

By: Comstock, J.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hartford, Reed and Barber: 1839

Seller ID: 2260338

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Spine repaired, loss from head and foot, edges rubbed, lightly foxed throughout. 1839 Full-Leather. 258 pp. A look at how the world saw the science of physics in the early 1800s.
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The Atom

By: Crehore, Albert C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, D. Van Nostrand Company: 1920

Seller ID: 1539081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine faded, cover edges slightly faded. 1920 Hard Cover. xvi, 161 pp. 7 1/4 x 5. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt emblem in center of front cover mirrored in blind stamp on corners and center of back cover, gilt titles. An early study of the atom as it relates to electromagnetic and gravitational theory, and the structure of matter. Crehore published a number of scientific works relating to atomic physics, the force of gravitation, matter, and energy. Crehore explains in his preface that the exposition of the theory in this book led to new theoretical values for Rydberg's constan...
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Image for On the Influence of Physical Agents on Life, to which are added, in the Appendix, Some Observations on Electricity, and Some Notes to the Work of Dr. Edwards [with] Necrological Notice of Dr. Philip Syng Physick; Delivered Before The American Philosophical Society, May 4, 1838 [with] Essays on Physiology and Hygiene

On the Influence of Physical Agents on Life, to which are added, in the Appendix, Some Observations on Electricity, and Some Notes to the Work of Dr. Edwards [with] Necrological Notice of Dr. Philip Syng Physick; Delivered Before The American Philosophical Society, May 4, 1838 [with] Essays on Physiology and Hygiene

By: Edwards, W.F. [William Frederic]; Hodgkin, [Thomas]; Fisher, [Alder]; [Lister, Joseph Jackson]; Pouillet, [Claude Servais Matthias]; Howard, Luke; Horner, W.E. [William Edmonds]; Reid, John;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell.: 1838

Seller ID: 2304976

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

First American edition of the work first published in French in 1832 (Garrison-Morton 145.56/598.1). 1838 Half-Leather. 228, 8, 32, 136 pp. Includes 6 plates. American reissue of Garrison-Morton 12197: Edwards studied the influence of environmental factors on animal life, concluding that vital processes depend on external physical and chemical forces but are not entirely controlled by them. The work includes an account of Edwards important experimental work regarding the effect of light on the body. Includes: Edwards, On the Influence of Physical Agents on Life; Necrological Notice of Dr. Phil...
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Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental

By: Enfield, William

Price: $950.00

Publisher: London, Printed for J. Johnson: 1785

Seller ID: 2304385

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

First edition (ESTC T105929). Collated and complete. Rebound in full leather with new end sheets and significant paper restoration to front matter. Ink gift note and owner information on front flyleaf, light stains to some pages (mostly margins), a couple minor ink marks to text and margins on only a few pages (these are mostly helpful clarifications of the text and references to the fold-out plates). 1785 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 353, [1] pp. 11 fold-out plates, each featuring numerous figures depicting geometric and scientific principles. A work design...
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An Introduction to Pollen Analysis (A New Series of Plant Science Books Volume XII [12])

By: Erdtman, G. [Gunnar]; Wodehouse, Roger P.; Verdoorn, Frans

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Waltham, Mass., Chronica Botanica Company: 1943

Seller ID: 2266467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. A couple minor smudges on rear board, pages lightly toned, ink name on half-title page and title page. 1943 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 239, [1] pp. The first English translation of the work that took what was previously a subject of research in just a few countires and made it an internationally recognized field, and revolutionized Quaternary vegetation and climate change research. Illustrations, diagrams, and charts throughout. Oddly, the verso of the final leaf bears an illustration of a tree playing a flute.
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Lectures on the History of Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (Cambridge Natural Science Manuals)

By: Foster, M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Cambridge at the University Press: 1901

Seller ID: 2035173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former copy of Rochester Academy of Medicine, usual marks, including bookplate on front endpaper stating 'Acquired by the Library through the Bequest of Clarence V. Costello, M.D.' First gathering loose (easily repaired), a few small spots on boards, some pages unopened. 1901 Hard Cover. 310 pp. 8vo. A three-century history of physiology, with the following chapters: Vesalius: His Forerunners and Followers; Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. The Lacteals and Lymphatics; Borelli and the Influence of the New Physics; Malpighi and the Physiology of Glands and Tissues; Van Helmont and the Ri...
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Einstein: A Centenary Volume

By: French, A.P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2304972

ISBN: 0674242300

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Publisher's brochure laid in. Ink name and date on endpaper. 1979 Hard Cover. xx, 332 pp. This is a total assessment of the life and works of one of the intellectual giants of our age. Compiled to commemorate the centenary of his birth, the book portrays the many facets of this extraordinary man. The main chapters, by internationally famous scientists such as Hermann Bondi, Gerald Holton, and Martin J. Klein, have been specially commissioned for the book. They describe Einstein's life, his major contributions to physics, his work for the cause of peace, and the wide-ranging effec...
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NASA: The Complete Illustrated History

By: Gorn, Michael; Aldrin, Buzz

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London / New York / Norwalk, Connecticut, Merrell / The Easton Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2274856

ISBN: 1858942543

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Signed by Buzz Aldrin on front flyleaf, with certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. A couple tiny imperfections to page ridges, otherwise an excellent copy. 2005 Full-Leather. 304 pp. Original full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, photographic plate mounted on front board, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in.
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Steam Generation Steps Ahead

By: Gould, G.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Fuel Engineering Company of New York / The Marchbanks Press: 1930

Seller ID: 2289753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled, a few pencil marks on front endpaper and margin of a few pages. 1930 Hard Cover. 102 pp. CONTENTS: Advancing Standards in Steam Generation; RELATION OF PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION TO THE COAL MARKET: Predicting Clinker Trouble; Equipment and Operation Limit Coal Buying; Necessity of Knowing One's Exact Requirements; Elastic Methods and Standards; IMPORTANCE OF SEPARATELY APPRAISING PLANT PERFORMANCE AND COAL VALUES: Conflicting Methods of Coal Valuation; Plant Performance -- the Concealed Influence; Heat Balance Reveals the Truth; COAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH MAY MODIFY PLA...
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The Influence of Pasteur on Medical Science: An Address Delivered before the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University

By: Herter, Christian Archibald

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company / The Gilliss Press: 1904

Seller ID: 2072415

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Author's calling card and ink name & address of previous owner on front endpaper. Edges lightly rubbed. 1904 Hard Cover. 77 pp. A brief history of Louis Pasteur's contributions to medical science, the most obvious of which is of course pasteurization, but which also related to vaccination and microbial fermentation, and the prevention and curing of various diseases. Pasteur is now considered among the founders of the science of bacteriology.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Isaacson, Walter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2007

Seller ID: 2271011

ISBN: 0743264738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Book club edition. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxii, 675, [7] pp. 8vo. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellersBenjamin FranklinandSteve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacsons biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerka stru...
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

By: Johnson, Steven

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Riverhead: 2014

Seller ID: 2281897

ISBN: 1594632960

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

6th printing. Lightly rubbed. 2014 Hard Cover. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakesfrom the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to include playback, to the Hollywood movie star who helped invent the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth...
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Planetary Meteorology, or The Science of Forecasting the Weather. Science Notes, Electricity, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Etc., Etc. [with] More About Halley's Comet. [Astronomy, Meteorology and Science Notes 1910]

By: Klock, J.N.; Todd, David

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Bath, J.N. Klock: 1910

Seller ID: 2304443

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly rubbed. 1910 Hard Cover. 158, [10] pp. Red Appears unrecorded - none located in OCLC, in auction records, or on the market. A general work of science providing basic overviews of various topics. Notable as an early appearance in print of the announcement of the discovery of a new comet by Joel H. Metcalf (Aug. 10, 1910), which earned him the 69th Donohoe Comet Medal.
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Scientific Feuds: From Galileo to the Human Genome Project

By: Levy, Joel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London, New Holland: 2010

Seller ID: 2301040

ISBN: 1847735142

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 2010 Hard Cover. Most science chronicles present a triumphant march through time, with revolutionary thinkers and their discoveries following in orderly progression. The truth, however, is somewhat different. Scientific Feuds is a collection of the most vicious battles among the greatest minds of our time. It features such contests as Huxley and Wilberforce's debate on Darwin's theory of evolution, Franklin and Wilkins' fight over the discovery of DNA, and the War of Currents between Tesla and Edison (which ended with Edison electrocuting dogs and horses in a vai...
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The Life of John Locke, with Extracts from His Correspondence, Journals, and Common-Place Books.

By: Lord King

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1829

Seller ID: 2304810

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Sabin 37825). Rebacked with new end sheets, original backstrip laid down (possibly with a replaced title label). Bookplates of baronet William Purves Hume Campbell and neuropsychologist and medical professor John Farquhar Fulton on front endpaper, with Manson & Son bookbinder plate in top corner. Front matter foxed, owner blind stamp on rear flyleaf. 1829 Full-Leather. xi, [3], 407, [1] pp. 4to. Full calf, gilt titles, borders, and dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges. The second major biography of the influential Enlightenment philosopher often called the 'Father of Liberalis...
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Bibliography of the History of Medicine of the United States and Canada, 1939-1960

By: Miller, Genevieve; McDaniel, W.B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press: 1964

Seller ID: 2077050

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Former copy of Library of Congress, stamped 'duplicate', usual library marks. 1964 Hard Cover. xvi, 428 pp. 8vo. A bibliography of over twenty years of medical history publications, arranged by topic, with a list of journals cited and an extensive index.
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

By: Philbrick, Nathaniel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: ., Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2202361

ISBN: 067003231X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 452 pp. 8vo. After chronicling the sinking of the whaleship Essex in In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick attempts to rescue from obscurity the U.S. Exploring Expedition's 1838-1842 circumnavigation of the world and its cartographic and scientific accomplishments.
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

By: Philbrick, Nathaniel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2302119

ISBN: 067003231X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 452 pp. 8vo. Traces the 1838 discovery voyage that resulted in the western world's survey of 87,000 ocean miles, 280 Pacific islands, numerous zoological discoveries, and the finding of Antarctica; a journey that was marked by tragic deaths, the losses of two ships, and controversial court martials.
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Galileo Heretic

By: Redondi, Pietro

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2297813

ISBN: 0691084513

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faintly rubbed. 1987 Hard Cover. The author's main thesis is that Galileo famous trial did not take place because he promoted a heliocentric view of the universe, but because he promoted a non-Aristotelian theory of physics at variance with the Church's doctrine of transubstantiation.
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The Art and Practice of Silver Printing

By: Robinson, H.P.; Capt. Abney

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, E. and H.T. Anthony: 1881

Seller ID: 2262842

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

First edition. Lacks title/copyright page and frontispiece, a few pages repaired at binding, corners rubbed. 1881 Hard Cover. 128 pp. 29 pages of advertisements for various photographic equipment follow text. An early work on the silver gelatin process in photography, published just ten years after it was invented by Richard Leach Maddox. Illustrations in text. Contents include: Preliminary Experiments; Preparation of Albumenized Paper; The Sensitizing Bath; How to Keep the Sensitizing Bath in Order; Silvering the Paper; Washed Sensitive Paper; Cutting Paper; Printing-Frames; Preparing the Lan...
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Radio Wizard: Edward Samuel Rogers and the Revolution of Communications

By: Rogers, Edward Samuel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Rogers: 2000

Seller ID: 2201240

ISBN: 0771580509

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2000 Hard Cover. 130 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward Samuel Ted Rogers, Jr., OC (May 27, 1933 December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr. is regarded as the founder of the company, although the radio station that he founded, CFRB, is now owned by another Canadian company competitor Astral Media.
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Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius

By: Shea, William R.; Artigas, Mariano

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2297814

ISBN: 0195165985

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 2003 Hard Cover. The book offers a fascinating account of the six trips Galileo made to Rome, from his first visit at age 23, as an unemployed mathematician, to his final fateful journey to face the Inquisition. The authors reveal why the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, set forth in Galileo's Dialogue, stirred a hornet's nest of theological issues, and they argue that, despite these issues, the Church might have accepted Copernicus if there had been solid proof. More interesting, they show how Galileo dug his own grave. To get the imprimatur, he br...
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John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance

By: Sherman, William H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press: 1995

Seller ID: 2307450

ISBN: 1558490701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First paperback printing. 1995 Hard Cover. xiv, 291 pp. This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (15271609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly, and commercial circles of his day.
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

By: Singh, Simon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Fourth Estate / Harper Collins: 2004

Seller ID: 2280089

ISBN: 0007162200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 2004 Hard Cover. 532 pp. 8vo. We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is. Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution of the universe. This highly readable and entertaining book tells the story of the many brilliant, often eccentric scientists who fought against the establishment idea of an eternal and unchanging cosmos. From such early Greek ...
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