by Timothy Ferris · Crítica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474234732
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«La aventura del universo» is the popular science essay by Timothy Ferris, published by Crítica in 1990 in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
It traces the history of astronomy from Aristotle to quantum theory, explaining how humanity has gradually unraveled the cosmos. Ferris portrays the minds that transformed science, amid advances, errors, and struggles against the established ideas of each era.
Subtitle: «De Aristóteles a la teoría de los cuantos: una historia sin fin». Original English edition of 1988: «Coming of Age in the Milky Way». Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and a Pulitzer finalist.
Recommended for readers interested in popular science, the history of astronomy, and biographies of great scientists.
Timothy Ferris is an American science writer. He is best known for Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), a history of astronomy which won the Science Writing Award. He also wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (1997), a popular overview of cosmology. In The Science of Liberty (2010), he argues that scientific thinking played a role in democracy. Ferris has produced three PBS documentaries: The Creation of the Universe (1985), Life Beyond Earth (1999), and Seeing in the Dark (2007). He was a producer of the Voyager Golden Record, a sample of the sights and sounds of Earth sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft.
