The Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy

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Pages: 256 (Hardcover)

Editor: Stephen Hawking

ISBN: 0762427329

Pub: Running Press Book Publishers

Pub date: 2005-08-30

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 333095

Reader Reviews:

Great content, shame about the presentation (3/4 people found this helpful)

My daughter is just starting A Levels, with an expressed career interest in astrophysics. I thought this might be a great present. It probably still is, but I found many of the illustrations to be trite. And the typesetting of the (not extensive) mathematics in Einstein's paper is shockingly bad! With the advances in typesetting technology (TeX, etc), the publisher really should have done better.

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