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The Scientific American Library is a book series of popular science written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by Scientific American books from 1983 to 1997. These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a Book of the Month Club selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95.
Julia M. Klein of Johns Hopkins Magazine wrote, "There's nothing small about Johns Hopkins physicist Sean Carroll's latest undertaking. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion is the first volume in an ambitious trilogy that seeks to explain physics to a popular audience—one willing to grapple with the basics of calculus and other mathematical underpinnings of the field.
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.. The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to build capacity in partner ...
The million book project was a "proof of concept" that has largely been replaced by HathiTrust, Google Book Search and the Internet Archive book scanning projects. The Internet Archive may have some books that Google does not (e.g.: The Poems of Robert Frost published after the end of 1922). [3] [4] [5]
According to Hubble's law, the expansion of the universe causes distant galaxies to appear to recede from us faster than the speed of light. However, the recession speed associated with Hubble's law , defined as the rate of increase in proper distance per interval of cosmological time , is not a velocity in a relativistic sense.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book on theoretical cosmology by the physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for readers who had no prior knowledge of physics.
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In The New York Review of Books, Martin Gardner praised The First Three Minutes as "science writing at its best." [5] In The New Yorker, Jeremy Bernstein wrote that "Weinberg builds such a convincing case...that one comes away from his book feeling not only that the idea of an original cosmic explosion is not crazy but that any other theory is scientifically irrational."