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Synopsis
The universe is a mind-boggling place, full of things seemingly too big and too small to understand. How can we visualise the minuscule world of the atom and the vastness of our galaxy? How can we grasp a billionth of a second and a billion years? Or the freezing point of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atomic bomb?
David Blatner's solution is to put these and many other 'inconceivable' items on six spectrums - numbers, size, light, sound, heat and time - that put them into a human perspective. Full of facts, illustrations and anecdotes, Spectrums proves that we really can make sense of our extraordinary universe.
Visit spectrums.com for amazing interactive charts, videos and more
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Review
I love this book! Blatner is a witty and awesome tour guide to areas beyond our perceptual horizon (Robert P. Crease, author of World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement)
Book Description
Making sense of the inconceivable
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1408831414
- ISBN 13 9781408831410
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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