![]() ![]() He covers a lot of ground, touching on geology and evolution as well as astronomy. Ferris does an excellent job both of capturing the personalities involved (especially of figures like Galileo, Kepler, and Newton) and of describing the science in a succinct and understandable way. ![]() The first two sections, which are a history of pre-20th century physics, are the most interesting to me personally. I first read it as a teen, and it helped to encourage my love for astronomy and physics (and later, to major in physics at university). Given that this book was originally published in 1988, I'm sure that some of the data in the later chapters has since been disproven by more recent research however, since it is primarily a history, it is not nearly as dated as most 1980's books on astrophysics probably are, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to modern readers with an interest in the history of astronomy and physics.Ĭoming of Age in the Milky Way is in many ways a formative book for me. This ambitious work chronicles the history of how humans have come to understand the size, age, and origin of the universe. ![]()
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