Book Review: A History of the Universe in 100 Stars by Florian Freistetter (Quercus 2021 – English translation from the 2019 original German edition) This title is surely a winner, and indeed this book is acclaimed an International Bestseller. What could be better than a comprehensible history of the universe, told in bite-sized chapters each… Continue reading Morsels of the Night Sky
Tag: History of Science
Book review – Reductionism: A Beginner’s Guide
by Alistair I M Rae, 2013, Oneworld Beginners Guides This is a well-organised and clear book, but I was disappointed that it seems imbalanced. The majority of the book develops the bottom-up picture of science from fundamental physics through chemistry, the properties of matter in bulk, the extraordinary engines of biochemistry and into the structure… Continue reading Book review – Reductionism: A Beginner’s Guide
New Horizons – Old Harmonies
[Originally written for New Zenith, newsletter of the Vectis Astronomical Society, 3 January 2019] Early on New Year’s Day [2019], the New Horizons spacecraft successfully achieved its long anticipated flyby of Ultima Thule. At about 43 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun, this was the furthest encounter yet with an object in… Continue reading New Horizons – Old Harmonies