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Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe

184 pages
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Published: 1 Sep 1991
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ISBN: 9780674033634

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Publication date: 1 January 1993

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In the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and lucid exploration of cosmology available today, MIT astrophysicist and science writer Alan Lightman takes the reader on a grand tour of the universe. In this slim volume he explores the history of cosmology, the theories and the evidence, the new discoveries, the outstanding questions, and the controversies.