Book description
A thought-provoking account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to Newton.
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1 author picked The Sleepwalkers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It's a history of scientific advances, particularly in cosmology. It’s old now and I don’t know if it’s the best book on the topic, but it influenced my thinking a lot when I was a teenager.
Many advances in science require letting go of what you think you think you know. Letting go of even obvious assumptions – that the sun goes around the earth (plain to the naked eye); that the world is made of 4 elements – fire, water, earth, wind; that time flows the same everywhere for all people.
My book similarly shows some of the current…
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