On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy

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2003
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On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.

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"On the Shoulders of Giants" tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 1280
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 30 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0141015713
ISBN 13: 9780141015712

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.. .Hawking gives these works a setting that is elegantly simple, and in its simplicity, effectively broadening.

Author Bio

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (Newton's old position). He is the author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Curiously, Hawking was born 300 years to the day after Galileo died.