Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It

By Victor F. Weisskopf

Book Overview

More than 100,000 copies of the first edition of Knowledge and Wonder have been sold, both in the U.S. and abroad. Written expressly for the general reader and beginning science student, the book describes our present scientific understanding of natural phenomena and the universality of that understanding and its human significance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262730529
• ISBN13: 9780262730525
• Release Date: November 1979
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

This book was recommended by my Physics advisor - to help me understand relativity. A short and all encompassing text, very well written and easy to understand.

Excellent!

This book was recommended by my college physics advisor to help grasp spacial relativity. Relly well written, a summary of many areas of modern science. Everyone should read this book!

excellent, clear presentation of usually difficult science

This book clearly describes natural phenomenon in an orderly, logical progression that brings such concetps as the quanta and the expanding universe within the grasp of the non-physics trained mind. The language is normal, non jargon sentences, and the technical terms that are used are clearly explained. Perhaps even more important, it is generally fun to read, not nearly as sleep-inducing as other texts I've encountered.