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From Publishers Weekly The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterpriseGalileo emerges here as a careerist, and Johannes Kepler as a self-loathing neurotic. Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin's and Lyell's investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. BOMC alternate. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal YA In the first section, Ferris uses historical anecdotes to relate astronomical discoveries and the foibles of their discoverers in a successful attempt to show the big names'' of science as real persons, warts and all. The second sectio

Who reads Coming of Age in the Milky Way?

Author

Ferris, Timothy

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062006547

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Cooking

Rating

4.13 / 5 (2,241 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14