01476cam a2200265 4500 1261961839 TxAuBib 880218s1988||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 88005153 9780688058890 0688058892 (OCoLC)8279 DLC eng DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP WY@ ALEML OCLCQ VOC OCLCF TxAuBib Ferris, Timothy. Coming of age in the Milky Way / Timothy Ferris. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, 1988. 495 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-485) and index. Dome of heaven -- Raising (and lowering) the roof -- Discovery of the earth -- Sun worshipers -- World in retrograde -- Newton's reach -- Plumb line to the sun -- Deep space -- Island universes -- Einstein's sky -- Expansion of the universe -- Sermons in stones -- Age of the earth -- Evolution of atoms and stars -- Quantum and its discontents -- Rumors of perfection -- Axis of history -- Origin of the universe -- Mind and matter -- Persistence of mystery. Traces the evolution of humanity's need to understand space and time from late-prehistoric musings to the ""supersymmetry"" theories of space-time advanced as the second millennium comes to a close. Science History. Space and time. Cosmology.