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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1971

Author
  
Isaac Asimov

Publisher
  
Doubleday

4/5
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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1971

Genre
  
Science

Preceded by
  
The Solar System and Back

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Series
  
Essays from the The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Media type
  
Print (Hardback and Paperback)

Followed by
  
The Left Hand of the Electron

Similar
  
Isaac Asimov books, Science books

The Stars in their Courses is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by Isaac Asimov. It is the eighth in a series of books collecting his essays from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 1969 to September 1970). Doubleday & Company first published the collection in 1971.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part A: Astronomy
  • The Stars in their Courses
  • The Lop-sided Sun
  • The Lunar Honor-roll
  • Worlds in Confusion
  • Part B: Physics
  • Two at a Time
  • On Throwing a Ball
  • The Man Who Massed the Earth
  • The Luxon Wall
  • Playing the Game
  • The Distance of Far
  • Part C: Chemistry
  • The Multiplying Elements
  • Bridging the Gaps
  • The Nobel Prize That Wasn't
  • Part D: Sociology
  • The Fateful Lightning
  • The Sin of the Scientist
  • The Power of Progression
  • My Planet, 'tis of Thee—

    • References

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