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MEASURING THE UNIVERSE: OUR HISTORIC QUEST TO CHART THE HORIZONS OF SPACE AND TIME

Book ID/图书代码: 05B01474

English Summary/英文概要: This informative text tells the story of how man has attempted to measure distance in space, ranging from early experiments in working out the circumference of the earth, through estimates of distance to the nearest stars, to developments in theories as to what is beyond the observable universe.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 人到中年,曾今的音樂大師甘願放棄事業,從新繼續兒時的夢想—只因為對科學的強烈熱愛。

暢銷作家基蒂.弗格森憑藉自己的天賦以及眾多學者的幫助(其中包括英國著名物理學家史蒂芬.霍金),以新奇獨特的角度,通俗易懂的語言重新闡釋了科學知識。

本書分九章,內容包括:天體的景色、太空的革命、武裝裸眼、從軌道上看景色、更高層的結構、恒定與穩固的終結等.(兼职翻译-徐曼曼)

Awards/获奖情况:“這是我見過的最有趣的書籍,讀者一定會會被那些精妙的科學定義,類比,簡單易懂的解釋所吸引。”
“The reader is drawn on by some of the best scientific definitions, analogies, simple explanations and downright interesting writing I have ever seen” ---Standard

“弗格森最擅長的就是描述複雜的思想,而且不論是否是專業人士都能理解並喜愛。”
“Ferguson is at her best when describing complex ideas in terms that a non-specialist can both understand and enjoy”---Sunday Times

“令人著迷的好書……很好的迎合了我們熱愛驚奇的品味。”
“Fascinating...our taste for wonder is well catered for”-- Anthony Burgess, Observer

About the Author/作者介绍: 基蒂.弗格森從孩提時代開始就深深地喜愛上了天文學和物理學。大學從茱莉亞音樂學院畢業後,基蒂在此後的二十年裡一直從事音樂行業。時間並沒有消磨基蒂曾經的夢想,她毅然決然重頭開始學習相關知識。到目前為止,基蒂已出版了多本暢銷書籍,其中包括Black Holes in Space Time和Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything.

Kitty Ferguson’s interest in astronomy and physics date from her childhood in Texas. Her parents Herman and Prestyne Hocher Vetter raised her in a family that valued science, classical music, and religious faith. After graduating from the Juilliard School and a twenty-year career as a professional musician, Ferguson, with her husband and three children, spent a year in England, where her husband was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. There, Ferguson followed up her early passion for science by auditing graduate lectures and seminars in the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

After the success of her first book she continued to devote herself full-time to writing about science, and her subsequent books include the bestselling biography, Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything, which was written with Hawking’s full cooperation.

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