The World Treasury of Physics Astronomy and Mathematics

Edited by: Timothy Ferris

This book is a collection of essays by scientists such as Richard Feynman, Pierre Curie, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Max Plank, Carl Sagan, John von Neumann, Alan Turing, and the like.

From the Preface…

“Science and mathematics are to our technically inclined societies what the composition of epic poetry was to the Homeric Greeks, or shipbuilding was to the Norsemen, or landscape painting to the Sung Dynasty Chinese; they are what we do best…Science has been called the twentieth century’s greatest art form…”