Helpful Score: 3
A breath taking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it.
Helpful Score: 2
Vivid and well written tour of the history of our knowledge of the universe from geo-centric flat earth to quantum chromodynamics
Helpful Score: 1
Excellent history of science.
"Read Tim Ferris's magnificent new book. Ferris delights in detailing the eccentrics and explorers who took time out from their busy workdays amid raging battles and virulent epidemics to squint and strain and take theri sightings for science . . . This is the best book about the cosmos since Carl Sagan's Cosmos." Chicago Tribune
I own this book and love it. Am now reading it for the third time.
