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Barnes & Noble

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Book

OCLC
  
50632825

Author
  
Stephen Hawking

Page count
  
1,264

ISBN
  
9780762416981

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
2002

Pages
  
1264

Originally published
  
2002

Genre
  
Popular science

Publisher
  
Running Press

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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy is a compilation of scientific texts edited and with commentary by the British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The book was published by Running Press in 2002.

Content

The book includes selections from the following works in English:

  • On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus, which explains Copernicus' theory of heliocentrism: that the Sun, rather than Earth, lies in the center of the universe
  • Mystery of the Cosmos, Harmony of the World and Rudolphine Tables by Johannes Kepler, which describes Kepler's theories and observations in astronomy
  • Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei explains Galileo's discoveries in physics
  • Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Sir Isaac Newton
  • The Principle of Relativity by Albert Einstein

    • The book also includes five critical essays by Hawking and Hawking's biographies of the five scientists whose works are included.

    References

    On the Shoulders of Giants (book) Wikipedia
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