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Merlin's Tour of the Universe
A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars and Everything Far
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Fully revised and updated for the 21st century The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest, darkest depth of the universe and back again with his extra-terrestrial tour guide, Merlin. Merlin is...
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Fully revised and updated for the 21st century
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest, darkest depth of the universe and back again with his extra-terrestrial tour guide, Merlin.
Merlin is a timeless visitor to Earth from the planet Omniscia in the Andromeda galaxy, and he has observed first-hand many of the major scientific events of Earth's historyβfrom the Big Bang to the extinction of the dinosaurs and beyond.
In Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike about the universe and our place within it. All questions are answered with authentic science, infused with wit, wisdom, an occasional rhyme, and accompanied by the odd illustration. Merlin's friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all timeβincluding da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble. Merlin's Tour also features playful conversations with these historical luminaries.
Based on the first book that Tyson ever published in the 1990s and now fully updated and extended for the twenty-first century, Merlin's Tour of the Universe is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about how the cosmos works.
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ISBN: 9781785307621
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 29 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Black and White Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 146.0mm
Height: 225.0mm
Weight: 408g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. In 2017 he became the first American to win the prestigious Stephen Hawking Medal for science communication. He is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011 he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS, and in March 2014 he became host of the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Tyson has written several New York Times bestselling nonfiction books.
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