Introducing the Universe: A Graphic Guide

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the science behind the world we live in. The universe is expanding, but how long has the expansion been going on? Will it expand forever, or collapse in a Big Crunch, a Big Bang in reverse? From Aristotle to Newton, Einstein to Quantum Mechanics, INTRODUCING THE UNIVERSE - A GRAPHIC GUIDE recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy that underlie the present-day picture of the universe.

General Information

ISBN : 9781848314184
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Imprint : Icon Books Ltd
Publication date : 30 September 2012
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : 01 December 2012
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Felix Pirani
Bind : Paperback
Edition : Compact ed
Illustrator : Christine Roche
Dewey classification : 523.1
Pages : 176
Illustrations : B/w throughout

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Author description

Felix Pirani is Emeritus Professor of Rational Mechanics in the University of London. He has published a number of scientific papers and popular articles about Einstein's theory of relativity, and three books for children. He was once attached to a group of cosmologists known as the Cambridge Circus. Christine Roche is an illustrator, cartoonist, and filmmaker.