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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy

timothy ferris clifton fadiman

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The most Eloquent and inspired scienc writing of our time.An astonishing cast of more than ninety renowned writers provides thoughtful and lucid reflections on some of the major scentific topics of our time - from black holes and galaxies to artificial intelligence and chaos theory. Featuring essays, articles, and poems penned by notables in the worlds of both science and literature, this unique book will delight the science enthusiast and the inquisitive general reader alike.

880 pages, Paperback

First published April 25,1991

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Format
880 pages, Paperback
Published
June 30, 1993 by Back Bay Books
ISBN
9780316281331
ASIN
0316281336
Language
English

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timothy ferris

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Timothy Ferris is the author of a dozen books (most recently The Science of Liberty), plus 200 articles and essays, and three documentary films—"The Creation of the Universe," “Life Beyond Earth,” and “Seeing in the Dark”—seen by over 20 million viewers.

Ferris produced the Voyager phonograph record, an artifact of human civilization containing music and sounds of Earth launched aboard the twin Voyager interstellar spacecraft.

Called “the best popular science writer in the English language” by The Christian Science Monitor and “the best science writer of his generation” by The Washington Post, Ferris has received the American Institute of Physics prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Ferris has taught in five disciplines at four universities. He is currently an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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LapinTheRabbit
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April 16,2025
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Very good. A large collection of works that cover astronomy, mathematics and physics. From "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" to the one about the Coastline of Britain, there is plenty of material to keep you busy.
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Rimasu
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April 16,2025
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How it would be possible to rate this collection of essays less than 5 stars I'm not sure. Ferris has assembled one of the best selection of science writing on the subjects of 20th century physics, astronomy and maths that I have ever come across. The ordering is logical and comprehensive, and the essays are by the best authorities and communicators in each field assembled. The broad themes are explorations of Relativity, Quantum mechanics, Astrophysics, Game theory, Chaos, science biography, poetry and philosophy. There are poems by James Clerk Maxwell and Emily Dickenson, biographys of Rutherford and Turing, and several essays by Azimov, Einstein, and Feynman. On Quantum there are essay's by Bohr, Heisenberg, Russell, Dirac and Von Neuman, On Astronomy by Hubble, Sagan, Eddington and Weinberg. Mathmathics is explored by Mandelbrot, Von Neumnan and there is Alan Turing's original paper on a test for Artificial intelligence. Biographys on Chandrasekkera Rutherford, Robert Wilson and others compete for one another for attention as to the lives of these facinating men. One or two essays were poor selections (Schwinger on Tomonaga seems to have been interted to show an interest in Japanese physics at the time of the war, but is so baddly written that few would argue it belongs here I think). Another gaping hole is the almost complete absence of women contributors, addressed almost as apology by Vivian Gornick. Notably there is an essay by Pierre Curie but not by Mdme. It may have been she died before writing a public communique, but I think it is the major flaw of the collection. Overall this was absolutly a materful collection. I will be re-reading many of these essays again I am sure.gh
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WilfredoPineda
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April 16,2025
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Not too shabby, though some of the selections messed with the pace. E.g. too detail oriented without any real reason to keep you reading. Good though.
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Akayuu_
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April 16,2025
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dibeliin saat masih smp kelas 1...membuat kepala mo pecah saat baca pertama kali...sampe sekarang belum bisa ngerti semua isinya. jika ada yg berminat saya bersedia berikan / swap buku.
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Shiro_Chan
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April 16,2025
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these topics interest me much because it contains the information of the constellations and their mathematical calculations
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