Aeons:The Search for the Beginning of Time
Martin Gorst
The full story of man's attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Ussher's confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescope's images of a world 13 billion years old, with a starry cast of eccentrics, mystics, scientists and visonaries.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9780007502974
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- History of scienceAge of the universeCosmology
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeShortlisted(2002)
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