La explicación de las grandes obras de la física y de la astronomía explicadas por el genio Stephen Hawking, hacen que este libro sea una aventura. Sin uso de lenguaje complicado, Hawking nos introduce a su mundo, a nuestro mundo.

A compilation of works by Some greatest minds in the history of Physics And Astronomy , Greatest parts in the book are the Introduction By Sir Stephen Hawking given in his own words before beginning of each scientist's work.In this books there are works of Nicolas Copernicus ,Galileo Galilei , Johannes Kepler , Sir Isaac Newton , Albert Einstein . This book is like a Dictionary for Astronomy and astrophysics Enthusiasts ......Your Book shelf,and your knowledge just isn't complete without this book.

Ovo je najgori prevod koji sam ikada citala, morate da desifrujete sta je pisac hteo da kaze, a neke recenice uopste nemaju smisla i deluje kao da je koriscen google translate za celu knjigu. Takodje je ocigledno da prevodilac ne zna ni elementarnu fiziku i mislim da bi Stephen Hawking mogao da tuzi ovu izdavacku kucu, s obzirom na to da je toliko toga izgubljeno u prevodu. A sto se tice same knjige, ikreno nisam sigurna sta ona tacno nudi, s obzirom na to da se sastoji iz kratkih biografija 5 naucnika i odabranih odlomaka iz njihivih dela, a da pritom pisac nije dao nikakav komentar na odredjenim mestima, koja su potpuno nerazumljiva nekome ko, na primer, ne zna mnogo o astronomiji. S obzirom na to da ovo delo spada u popularnu fiziku, mislim da je daleko od toga da zadovolji svoju ciljnu grupu, a sigurno nije primamljivo ni onima koji mogu da citaju ova dela u celini. Sve u svemu, veliko razocaranje

This is a really intimidating book, both in size and most definitely, in content! It's a highly recommended read for anyone who has an interest in physics as it contains much of the original material from which huge sections of classical physics are derived.

The problem with this however is that four of the five texts contained in this book are between 500 and 350 years old and so the writing style is incredibly far removed from modern scientific writing. Galileo's section for example is presented as a dialogue between three friends discussing the physical concepts that he addresses which, while an inventive way of explaining these principles to the renaissance mind, takes a bit of getting used to!

The introductions to each text by Stephen Hawking are interesting but honestly do very little to prepare the reader for what is to come, serving mostly just to provide a bit of historical context for each work.

Regardless of the stylistic problems, these are indeed some of the classics of physics and something that any scientific mind should attempt to read once.

The old scientists used to give praises to God, quote from the Bible and that sort of stuff. Sadly, it doesn't happen anymore.

When Hawking quotes Copernicus, he includes Copernicus' comments about God. I'm glad he did that.

Good book! Wide and deep in science.

book giving the history of both physics and astronomy through the works of the most influential of its practicioners. Includes a lot of sketches and some pretty technical terms but I think still a book many could pick up and read.

This has been a good read. The author has put a lot of time and effort. Being a writer myself, I find it commendable. The content is decent and keeps you hooked for a long time. And some parts are simply minds blowing. I look forward to reading more books like this. All in all, a good experience for an avid reader like me.

I really enjoyed this book. its an excellent learning experience. even across the great diaspora of science, Prof Hawking magically weaves it all together to complete picture.Wonderful.

Doubles as an amazing recount of scientific advancement and a club to thwart off theives.

Stephen Hakwing is th author of this book, which is basically a compilation of some of the works/papers of 5 of the most important minds in Physics.
Each chapter is preluded by a very short and simple biography of each one (Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Einstein) and then we're presented by what Hakwing considered the most important work of each one.
When I bought this book I thought it was something more in the way of showing how their work had impacted our current society and/or visible conquests which ensued from it.
There's no explanation of the terms and subjects in analysis for any layman.
Altough having a thechnical background from college, where I had contact with Physics with some depth (balistics, thermodinamics, basic notions of quantum, etc) those days are long gone.
The only relevant notion I got from this was that the matters each one of them addressed and how they enunciated/solved it is beyond astounding.
If you have no physics knowledge and/or are more interested in biographies of said Physicists or how they helped mold our technical advances I suggest other reading.
Teading this book was a extremely cumbersome task for me. For those in the field this might be a more interesting book than for me, hence the two stars (instead of just one)

Excellent! A great view of the theories, applications and contributions to math and science from the subjects greatest minds.

Amazing. Realling interesting.