Powers of Ten: A Book about the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
Morrison, Philip; Morrison, Phylis; The Office of Charles and Ray Eames
Language: English
Published by Scientific American Books, New York, NY, USA, 1982
- First Edition
- Softcover
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First edition, first printing. viii, 242pp, profusely illustrated in text, many in full colour. Illustrated stiff card covers. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, a little shelf worn and very gently bumped on edges in places. Of all the senses it is vision that most informs the mind. The instruments of science also favour vision but they extend it into new domains of scale, intensity and colour. It is these domains that the authors traverse in Powers of Ten, a wonderous journey, in forty-two consecutive scenes, across the universe from its largest known dimension to its smallest.
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- Title
- Powers of Ten: A Book about the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
- Author
- Morrison, Philip; Morrison, Phylis; The Office of Charles and Ray Eames
- Publisher
- Scientific American Books, New York, NY, USA
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0716760088
- ISBN 13
- 9780716760085
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Science - Physics, Maths, Astronomy and Space Exploration, Uncategorized
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Review
Starting with a view of a billion light-years, the book (like the film) moves inward, with each page being at one-tenth the scale of the previous one. In 25 steps, you're looking at a picnic by the shores of Lake Michigan, then plunging into a human hand, down through the cells inside it, the DNA inside the cells, the atoms inside the DNA, and the subatomic particles inside the atom. By the time you've gone a total of 40 steps, you're in a world of quantum uncertainty.
There is no better guide to the relative sizes of things in the universe, and no better teacher about what exponential, scientific notation really means. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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