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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, 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 o...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780688058890
ISBN-10: 0688058892
Publication Date: 7/1988
Pages: 495
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Publisher: William Morrow Co
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, 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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