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Knowledge and Wonder - 2nd Edition: The Natural World as Man Knows It

hardcover – January 1, 1979
by Victor F. Weisskopf
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ISBN-13: 9780262230988 ISBN-10: 0262230984
Publisher
MIT Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 1979
Weight
1.1 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.50×15.20 cm

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Knowledge and Wonder - 2nd Edition: The Natural World as Man Knows It by Victor F. Weisskopf. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780262230988.

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. Contents: Preface; Our Place in Space; Our Place in Time; Two Forces of Nature; Atoms; The Quantum; Chemistry; The Quantum Ladder; Life; Evolution; Epilogue; Index.