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Reviewed on August 28, 2015 | E-Originals
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Weinberg (Jack S. Josey-Welch Fdn. Chair in Science and Regental Professor; director, Theory Research Group, Univ. of Texas at Austin) explains that this book is based upon lecture notes from a course for nonscience college students, and it reads that way. The emphasis throughout is upon the history of astronomy and physics, but the real point is not the history of science but the way the discipline evolved to its present form. O...Log In or Sign Up to Read More