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The Fabric of the Heavens: The Development of Astronomy and Dynamics

The Fabric of the Heavens: The Development of Astronomy and Dynamics

Toulmin, Stephen
Goodfield, June

Paperback

Astronomy & Space

ISBN10: 0226808483
ISBN13: 9780226808482
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 1 1999
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Conceived as three companion volumes that form an introduction to the central ideas of the modern natural sciences, these books--intelligent, informative, and accessible--are an excellent source for those who have no technical knowledge of the subject.

Praise for The Fabric of the Heavens:

I cannot remember when I last went through a book, any book, with such all-devouring zest. What is more, even the most complex technicalities are reduced to a positively crystalline clarity: If I can understand them, anyone can. The Fabric of the Heavens is, in every sense of the word, an eye-opener.--Peter Green, The Yorkshire Post

Not until the last chapter of the book is [the reader] allowed to think again wholly as a modern man has become accustomed, by common sense, to think. The discipline is admirably suited to the authors' task, and cunningly devised for the reader's edification--and, indeed, for his delight.--Physics Today

Praise for The Architecture of Matter:

The Architecture of Matter is to be warmly recommended. It is that rare achievement, a lively book which at the same time takes the fullest possible advantage of scholarly knowledge.--Charles C. Gillespie, New York Times Book Review

One is impressed by the felicity of the examples and by the lively clarity with which significant experiments and ideas are explained. . . . No other history of science is so consistently challenging.--Scientific American

Praise for The Discovery of Time:

A subject of absorbing interest . . . is presented not as a history of science, but as a chapter in the history of ideas from the ancient Greeks to our own time.--Times Literary Supplement

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