The Hunt for Vulcan : . . . and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe (Hardcover)

from PDCRead

Everyone has heard of Einstein; his name is synonymous with genius and his Theory of Relativity not only gave us a completely new branch of physics, it also solved the mystery of the missing planet ‘Vulcan' that scientists and astronomers had been searching for. The story though begins much earli...

from jms001

Science storytelling on the hunt for Vulcan.So apparently there used to be the idea that there was another planet, hidden between Mercury and the Sun, and my first thought was: "What kind of pneumonic device would children use to remember the planets if it starts with the letter 'V'"? After that,...

from BillieBook

I was excited by the premise of the book, but the execution left something to be desired. I've read science narratives that manage to balance being accessible and being informative, but this one never quite mastered the trick. It often read more like a series of university lectures than an actual...

from waltzmn

"Remember, you are mortal." Roman generals, when they came home to celebrate a Triumph (a parade to commemorate a major victory) were supposed to always have a slave accompanying them, whispering that message, lest the pomp of the ceremony go to their heads. It didn't always work, but it couldn't...

from brendajanefrank

In 182 pages, Thomas Levenson gives us an account of important advances in science from Newton's theory of gravity, which was published in 1686, its application to astronomy, to the publication of Einstein's theory of relativity in 1915. He also writes of the discoveries of Uranus by Sir William ...