More than 100,000 copies of the first edition of Knowledge and Wonder have been sold, both in the U.S. and abroad. Written expressly for the general reader and beginning science student, the book describes our present scientific understanding of natural phenomena and the universality of that understanding and its human significance. Contents: Preface; Our Place in Space; Our Place in Time; Two Forces of Nature; Atoms; The Quantum; Chemistry; The Quantum Ladder; Life; Evolution; Epilogue; Index.

Knowledge and Wonder - 2nd Edition: The Natural World as Man Knows It

Weisskopf, Victor

Science & Math

The MIT Press

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The Joy Of Insight: Passions Of A Physicist

Basic Books

Joy Of Insight (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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