The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology - Paperback
by John Farrell
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781560259022ISBN-10:1560259027UPC:9781560259022Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space Science, ChemistryBook Topic:CosmologySize:7.92 x 5.22 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCJA61TSQN
The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth century, when an obscure Belgian priest put his mind to deciphering the nature of the cosmos. Is the universe evolving to some unforeseen end, or is it static, as the Greeks believed? The debate has preoccupied thinkers from Heraclitus to the author of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781560259022ISBN-10:1560259027UPC:9781560259022Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space Science, ChemistryBook Topic:CosmologySize:7.92 x 5.22 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCJA61TSQN
A Boston native, John Farrell is also the author of The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without. A graduate of Harvard College with a B.A. in English and American Literature, Farrell has written for Commonweal, Aeon, Skeptic, Cosmos Magazine, New Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Salon, Forbes and The Tablet of London....
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