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“Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History…We felt this book was just really nicely written. In the first sentence he writes, ‘in the beginning, nearly 14 billion years ago, the entire universe was smaller than the period that ends this sentence.’ He really has a good way of capturing the enormity of what you’re looking at. The book has nice little digressions too, where he talks about the physics. So there’s a little bit about Newton and the impact that had and then there’s things about the oblateness of the Earth—in other words, it isn’t exactly spherical—and that you’re a little bit lighter at the equator than you are at the poles.” Read more...
The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Mike Kendall, Scientist
Our most recommended books
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The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene -
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
Of a Fire on the Moon (also called Moonfire)
by Norman Mailer -
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
by Suzanne O'Sullivan -
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits
by Charles Darwin -
The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski
