Found 92 results for "Timothy Ferris"
Coming of age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris
The skies of our ancestors hung low overhead.
The Whole Shebang
by Timothy Ferris, Timothy Ferris
THIS BOOK will summarize what we know about the cosmos and how we know it, and will speculate about the directions cosmo...
The red limit
by Timothy Ferris
IN THE TIME IT TAKES to read this sentence, the Earth will glide 200 miles in its orbit around the sun, the sun 3,000 mi...
The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
by Clifton Fadiman, Timothy Ferris
Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track
by Richard Phillips Feynman, Michelle Feynman
Richard Feynman received his undergraduate degree from MIT in June of 1939.
The Mind's Sky
by Timothy Ferris
Perhaps you've seen the painting: A pipe, depicted with photographic realism, floats above a line of careful, schoolboy ...
Seeing in the Dark
by Timothy Ferris
AT DAWN ON A DESERTED FLORIDA BEACH in 1954, the first rays of the Sun sent my father's long shadow and my shorter one r...
The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics
by Timothy Ferris
... IF, IN SOME cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next...
The future of spacetime
by Stephen W. Hawking, Kip S. Thorne
It's funny how long you wait to ask some of the most important questions, even questions about your own life.