by Isaac Asimov · Alianza Editorial. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420614588
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«El Universo» is Isaac Asimov's popular science essay, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (423 pages, in Spanish).
The book reconstructs the history of astronomical knowledge, from the ancient idea of a flat Earth to the discovery of quasars. Throughout its pages it sets out theories about the age of the Earth and the solar system, integrates them into the evolution of galaxies, and raises an open question: whether the universe had a beginning and will have an end, as the Big Bang proposes, or whether it is eternal and infinite, as the steady-state theories maintain.
Translation by Miguel Paredes Larrucea of the English original «The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar» (1966). It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, number 458, Science and Technology section.
For readers interested in popular science, the history of astronomy, and the big questions about the origin of the cosmos.
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. His work spans nine out of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system.
