Coming of Age in the Milky Way - Softcover

Ferris, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385263260 ISBN 13: 9780385263269

Publisher: Anchor Books, 1989

Synopsis

Chronicles humankind's awakening to the vastness of cosmic space and time, interweaving physics, philosophy, and religion with portraits of the great cosmologists

About this title

About the Author:

Timothy Ferris's works include Seeing in the Dark, The Mind's Sky (both New York Times best books of the year), and The Whole Shebang (listed by American Scientist as one of the one hundred most influential books of the twentieth century). A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ferris has taught in five disciplines at four universities. He is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former editor of Rolling Stone. His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. A contributor to CNN and National Public Radio, Ferris has made three prime-time PBS television specials: The Creation of the Universe, Life Beyond Earth, and Seeing in the Dark. He lives in San Francisco.

From the Inside Flap:

Winner of the 1988 American Institute of Physics Prize and named one of 1988's best books by the New York Times Book Review, this brilliant, lively and informative book seeks to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time and how this quest has shaped religion, politics and philosophy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385263260
• ISBN 13: 9780385263269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 495