The Universe in a Nutshell (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Stephen Hawking
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Time travel, Space and time, Astronomy or astronomers, Universe, Physics or physicists
In 1988, Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, published A Brief History of Time. It was among the most successful popular books about science ever written. The Universe in a Nutshell is its sequel. Unlike the first book, the sequel comes with stunning graphics and photographs to illustrate the concepts in the text, and each has an extended caption to clarify its relevance. The text itself, however, is much more cursory in presenting the intellectual and scientific background of current cosmology, and so readers who recall the...
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