Music of the Spheres: The Material Universe from Atom to Quasar, Simply Explained; VOLUME I, The Macrocosm: Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology [Paperback]

Guy Murchie (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Dover Pubns; Revised edition (June 1967)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486218090
• ISBN-13: 978-0486218090
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seminal, February 7, 2010

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J. Adams (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music of the Spheres: The Material Universe from Atom to Quasar, Simply Explained; VOLUME I, The Macrocosm: Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology (Paperback)

I wish I could express how seminal Music of the Spheres was in launching 40 years of studying quantum mechanics. If you are curious, or have a child who is curious, this set of books will take you inside a realm that is far more beautiful than most can imagine. BUY THESE BOOKS!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Guy Murchie is both author and composer of this literary symphony of science, May 16, 2009

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Patrick Stonehouse (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music of the Spheres: The Material Universe from Atom to Quasar, Simply Explained; VOLUME I, The Macrocosm: Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology (Paperback)

Before reading this book I was deaf to the multitude of sweet symphonies and songs and cantatas and preludes and operas sounding in both the furthest reaches of the cosmos and the deepest depths of the microcosms. Guy Murchie not only cured my deafness, but introduced me to the minstrels who sang the songs and the composers who composed the symphonies and the lyricists who wrote the words giving meaning and understanding to the universe all around and within us. Maestro Guy Murchie has well penned a masterpiece of popular science literature as inspiring as Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and as lucid as Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The words he writes are like an opera singing forth the wisdom of the ages with all the silver-sweet songs of science romancing our attentive ears.
Patrick Stonehouse