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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2017. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; moisture splash to top of first 4 pages and to the last 10 pa…ges; slight page warpage but not stuck or discolored pages. DJ: Very Good +; moisture evidence on rear of DJ with slight warpage and not discoloration to the front of the DJ. Black paper over boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 246 pp 8vo. This book uses drawings to help explain fifty-one key ideas of physics accessibly and engagingly. The author, a professor of physics and author of several physics books, pairs short, elegantly written essays with simple drawings that together convey important concepts from the history of physical science. Lemons proceeds chronologically, beginning with Thales' discovery of triangulation, the Pythagorean monocord, and Archimedes' explanation of balance. He continues through Leonardo's description of "earthshine" (the ghostly glow between the horns of a crescent moon), Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and Newton's cradle (suspended steel balls demonstrating by their collisions that for every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction). Reaching the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Lemons explains the photoelectric effect, the hydrogen atom, general relativity, the global greenhouse effect, Higgs boson, and more. The essays place the science of the drawings in historical context—describing, for example, Galileo's conflict with the Roman Catholic Church over his teaching that the sun is the center of the universe, the link between the discovery of electrical phenomena and the romanticism of William Wordsworth, and the shadow cast by the Great War over Einstein's discovery of relativity. A clean very presentable copy. Inscribed by Author(s).
