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

Hawking, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141015713 ISBN 13: 9780141015712

Verlag: Penguin, 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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STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist, generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions.
He died on 14 March, 2018.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141015713
• ISBN 13: 9780141015712
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1280
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: {language_tag:es_ES,value:"Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk"}