An Old Man's Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein's Universe
- ISBN-10
- 002040915X
- ISBN-13
- 9780020409151
- Category
- Cosmology
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
- Author
- A. Zee
Description
This book is a brilliant gamol through the history of science and a fascinating glimpse of the physics of the future based around Einstein's revolutionary theory of gravity.
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