Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
ISBN 13 | 9780140297416 |
ISBN 10 | 140297413 |
Author | John Gribbin |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Subtitle | A History |
Editorial Review | Gripping and entertaining ... Wonderfully and pleasurably accessible. - Independent on Sunday, "Tremendous ... moves me to bestow a reviewer's cliche I long ago vowed never to use: a tour de force." - Spectator, "A splendid book ... demolishes innumerable myths and exposes the factual roots of some of science's well known tales (for example, Galileo never dropped weights of different sizes from Pisa's leaning tower)"- Economist |
About the Author | John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books, including In Search of Schroedinger's Cat, Stardust and Deep Simplicity. He is famous to his many fans for making complex ideas simple, and says that his aim in his writing - much of it done with his wife, Mary Gribbin - is to share with his readers his sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe. John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. |
Publication Date | 1-Jun-10 |
Number of Pages | 672 |