Cosmology
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The Sleepwalkers, Arthur Koestler (ISBN 978-0-141-39453-4, Penguin Classics)
I read about this book in another one about the effort to send people to Mars. I wrote a short post about that book earlier. This book is a mix of history a of science and an analysis of the scientific method. From the latter perspective it presents an alternative to the well known Structure…
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The Little Book of the Big Bang: A Cosmic Primer, Craig J. Hogan (ISBN 9780387983851; Springer)
The title of the book describes the content quite well. In roughly 170 pages the author covers the history of our universe from the Big Bang until today. One reviewer on the back cover goes so far as to claim that Hogan has condensed the story into a pleasurable evening. Although the pages are not…
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