Publisher:
New York, Random House: 2008
Third Printing of the 2008 Hardcover Edition. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. xxii, (650) pp. Black-and-white illustrations throughout, bibliography, index; text clean, unmarked. Paper over boards, spine titled in red foil, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, minor use wear. This book relates the stories of people who transformed science and the times in which they lived, beginning with Copernicus and brining us to the modern age of space exploration. John Gribbin was trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the unive...
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