Even before his introductory sentence ends, the voice has seamlessly shifted to the voice of Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor who played the young Stephen Hawking in the film Hawking. Occasionally Hawking's own voice comes back for a few ...
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In Italy at Monte Cassino, a monastic centre of scholarship called St. Benedict's was established in A.D. 529, and other centres soon followed, particularly in the sixth and seventh centuries, when Irish missionaries reached England and ...
This book is the splendid result. It is not a biography per se. It is rather the story of one man's quest to find the 'Theory of Everything'. In these pages you will encounter a multitude of amazing paradoxes: Beginnings may be endings.
These are just a few of the tantalizing questions examined in this jargon-free review of one of the most fascinating topics in modern science.
Stephen Hawking es una de las figuras más notables de nuestro tiempo: un genio de Cambridge que se ha ganado la fama internacional como un brillante físico teórico y que se ha convertido en una fuente de inspiración para aquellos que ...
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live.
This is a celebration of an icon of modern physics, who inspired generations of scientists and changed our understanding of the universe.
The debate between Harlow Shapley and HeberCurtis: Rocky Kolb, Blind Watchers of the Sky, New York: Helix Books,1996, pp.187194;and Robert W. Smith, The expanding Universe: Astronomy's “Great Debate,' Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge ...
Popular science writer Kitty Ferguson investigates little-explored byroads in the history of science, from Kepler's nearly disastrous venture into science fiction to a twentieth-century experiment involving cats and rocket fuel.
3. Melissa McDaniel, Stephen Hawking: Revolutionary Physicist (New York: Chelsea House Publications, 1994), p. 28. Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes, p. 3. Judy Bachrach, “A Beautiful Mind, an Ugly Possibility,” Vanity Fair, ...
Describes the legacy of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic who contemplated the order and symmetry behind musical beauty, discussing Platonists, string theory, and Bertrand Russell.
Praise for Kitty Ferguson's Measuring the Universe "A science book that is not only very readable but actually a page-turner.
This strikingly original book expertly yet clearly encapsulates the various cosmological arguments from science, religion, and philosophy for the nonspecialist.
Since the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859, many have found science and belief in God irreconcilable. Now, in the final decade of the twentieth century, stunning advances...
More than 2,000 years ago, Eratosthenes, in Alexandria, used a stick, a hole in the ground, sunllght at summer solstice, and elementary geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth...
A biography of one of the most remarkable figures in theoretical physics since Einstein describes Hawking's childhood, Cambridge days, and battle with his illness and discusses his theories. Reprint.
本书作者在与霍金结识的30多年里,不断地探究他的前沿科学理论,并在霍金本人及其家人,亲密伙伴的鼎力协助下,创作了这部完整记录霍金一生的经典传记----从追溯他的出生到出席他的葬礼,还原了一个拥有非凡成就和世俗烦恼的本真霍金.
The extraordinary, unlikely tale of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler and their enormous contribution to astronomy and understanding of the cosmos is one of the strangest stories in the history of science.