The rainbow, the moon, a spinning top, a comet, the ebb and flood of the oceans … a falling apple.
There is only one universe and it fell to Isaac Newton to discover its secrets.
Newton was arguably the greatest scientific genius of all time, and yet he remains a mysterious figure.
Introducing Newton explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who sifted through the accumulated knowledge of centuries, tossed out mistaken beliefs, and single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics and optics. By the age of 25, entirely self-taught, he had sketched out a system of the world, and...
A compact INTRODUCING guide to the science behind the world we live in.
The universe is expanding, but how long has the expansion been going on? Will it expand forever, or collapse in a Big Crunch, a Big Bang in reverse?
From Aristotle to Newton, Einstein to Quantum Mechanics, INTRODUCING THE UNIVERSE – A GRAPHIC GUIDE recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy that underlie the present-day picture of the universe.