Angielski
This book is part of the series chronicling man's stumbling and meandering journey in his attempts to understand and unravel the cosmos. Starting from the caveman and a freezing earth the series explores the secrets of the universe.
Galileo using a telescope in the early 1600s discarded the well-establised view from time immemorial that the Earth was the center of the universe. In a sense Galileo was the first "modern" scientist who established that the universe was not random.
The Scientific Revolution reached its peak in the next century, with Sir Isaac Newton. His laws of motion were the gateway to modern physics. By the end of the eighteenth century people had thought that science had been pretty much sewed up. But then came other pioneers, in the next century and paved the way to a more complete understanding of the universe.
In the 20th century, there were several visionaries who further revolutionized science: Albert Einstein, with relativity, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg, the field of quantum mechanics.
The book explores all these topics from archaeo-astronomy to space frontier which has unveiled a mind-boggling universe.
