The Magicians
Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Published:20th Feb '20
£14.99
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The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
The spellbinding story of the 'magicians': scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's mysterious predictive power.
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
'An excellent popular science book.'
DARA Ó BRIAIN
'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'
ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman
'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'
POPULAR SCIENCE
'Highly entertaining and accessible.' IRISH TIMES
'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.' PROSPECT
'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has down it again.' BBC SKY AT NIGHT
The Magicians takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
ISBN: 9780571346387
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 21mm
Weight: 414g
304 pages
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