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The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan. The book is an expanded version of the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1930. [1]
Wrote Introduction and one story, collected the other ten stories. The Coming of the Space Age; Famous Accounts of Man's Probing of the Universe; 1967. Selected and edited by Arthur C. Clarke. The Beginnings of Satellite Communication; J.R. Pierce, 1968. Wrote Preface. Three for Tomorrow; Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny and James Blish, 1969 ...
It featured an introduction written by Clarke as well as his remarks at the end of each chapter or topic. In 1985, a paperback of this book was released by HarperCollins Publishers. The series was followed by Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe, broadcast in 1994.
After retiring in 1929, he wrote a number of books for the lay public, including The Stars in Their Courses (1931), The Universe Around Us, Through Space and Time (1934), The New Background of Science (1933), and The Mysterious Universe. These books made Jeans fairly well known as an expositor of the revolutionary scientific discoveries of his ...
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Mysterious universe may refer to: Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe, a television series by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke; The Mysterious Universe, a 1930 book about science by astrophysicist James Hopwood Jeans; Mysterious Universe: A Handbook of Astronomical Anomalies, a 1979 book about anomalous phenomena by William R. Corliss
Since the first Conjuring movie came out back in 2013, James Wan’s based-on-a-true-story tale of two paranormal investigators has haunted the horror genre like a wildly successful ghost. The ...
The book explores the perils related to the atomic age. In this novel, the Cold War is apparently still on, and at the end of the book one side has nuclear weapons above the earth on an orbital platform. To test its abilities, the Star Child detonates an orbiting warhead at the end of the novel, creating a false dawn below for the people on Earth.