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Astrophysics is said to have been born when Isaac Newton saw an apple drop in his orchard and had the electrifying insight that the Moon falls just like that apple. James Binney shows how the application of physical laws derived on Earth allows us to understand objects that exist on the far side of the Universe.Tags
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Note - I read this before I had any formal training in physics.
Found it to expose some some very interesting concepts, but it was so dense with information that I struggled to get through it.
Kind of relieving to read the reviews and know it wasn’t just me
Found it to expose some some very interesting concepts, but it was so dense with information that I struggled to get through it.
Kind of relieving to read the reviews and know it wasn’t just me
Terrible. Not an introduction, impossible to read if you don’t have a background in physics or the subject
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction
- Original title
- Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction
- Original publication date
- 2016
- Original language
- English
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- 84
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (2.33)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
