Lawrence LipkingWhat Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
by Meg Rosenburg on November 5, 2014
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Roberto TrottaThe Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
October 21, 2014[Cross-posted from New Books in Physics] Roberto Trotta’s new book, The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is (Basic Books, 2014) uses only the thousand (or ten-hundred) most common words in the English language to describe our current understanding and the most compelling outstanding mysteries in astrophysics and particle physics. A senior lecturer in [...]
Omar W. NasimObserving by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century
June 2, 2014[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology, and Society] In Omar W. Nasim’s new book, a series of fascinating characters sketch, paint, and etch their way toward a mapping of the cosmos and the human mind. Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2013) examines the history of observation of celestial nebulae [...]
Alex VilenkinMany Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes
April 1, 2011[This interview is re-posted with permission from Jenny Attiyeh's ThoughtCast] Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. If it’s our own universe you’re talking about, well, it’s called the big crunch, and it’s going to be hot hot hot! But if it’s the multiverse, that infinitely [...]