Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far [SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE]

Tyson, Neil Degrasse

ISBN 10: 1665019859 / ISBN 13: 9781665019859

Published by Blackstone Publishing, 2024

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New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the HALF-TITLE page (not a tipped-in page) (signature only). 1st edition THUS, no numberline. New, unread copy with dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. An update to the 1989 edition. Tyson is a NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal-winning astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, host of the TV series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey", followup to Carl Sagan's series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". He is the author of "Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going" and "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry". Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far [SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE]
• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1665019859
• ISBN 13: 9781665019859
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition THUS
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A USA Today bestseller!

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.

In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth's history. Merlin's friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time--da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble. While Merlin occasionally recounts playful conversations with these luminaries, all questions are answered with authentic science, infused with wit, wisdom, and an occasional rhyme. With the help of intermittent humorous cartoons, Merlin clarifies the details of familiar phenomena like gravity, light, space, and time, and travels to distant stars and galaxies to describe what makes them tick, rotate, explode, and collapse.

Merlin's Tour of the Universe is perfect for anyone who harbors burning questions on how the cosmos works.

About the Author

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. In 2017 he became the first American to win the prestigious Stephen Hawking Medal for science communication. He is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011 he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS, and in March 2014 he became host of the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Tyson has written several New York Times bestselling nonfiction books.