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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Author: Timothy Ferris
Winner of the 1988 American Institute of Physics Prize and named one of 1988's best books by the New York Times Book Review, this brilliant, lively and informative book seeks to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time and how this quest has shaped religion, politics and philosophy. — Twelve years in the making and impeccably resear...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385263269
ISBN-10: 0385263260
Publication Date: 6/23/1989
Pages: 496
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Publisher: Anchor Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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A breath taking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it.
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Vivid and well written tour of the history of our knowledge of the universe from geo-centric flat earth to quantum chromodynamics
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Excellent history of science.
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